1386

The Persian calendar, is observation-based, rather than rule-based, beginning each year on the vernal equinox as precisely determined by astronomical observations from Tehran (or the 52.5°E meridian) and Kabul. This makes it more accurate than Gregorian Calendar, but harder to work out which years are leap years. (*more accurate than the Gregorian Calendar.. I knew it! Persians are the greatest! :P ) This process makes it a bit tricky trying to translate a Persian birthday into Georgian calendar date. Both my brother and I have been affected by misinterpretation of dates. For almost 10 years, I celebrated my birthday on January 23. It wasn’t until highschool and all our documents were retranslated that the officials noticed that my birthday is actually the 22nd of January. One day here or there doesn’t make much of a difference, but with my brother they had the wrong year for a long time. I’m not sure who translated our documents for us, but I’m almost certain it was some appointed official! Argh. Anyhow, if you are wondering here are the Persian months:

  1. Farvardin
  2. Ordibehesht
  3. Khordad
  4. Tir
  5. Mordad
  6. Shahrivar
  7. Mehr
  8. Aban
  9. Azar
  10. Dey
  11. Bahman
  12. Esfand

If I’m not mistaken today would be the 3rd of Farvardin. And I was born in on the 3rd of Dey (10th month).. Which again messed me up a bit. See based on the Gregorian calendar I was always the oldest kid in the class, but if I was to go with the Persian calendar I would always be one of the youngest kids.

The current Persian Calendar year is 1386.

I wrote this on 22 March 07 when I was feeling .

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