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Today, Tamil people follow the Tamil Sidereal Calendar for celebrating festivals. The Tamil calendar differs from International Civil calendar (widely in use) with variable months and year lengths. This in uncomfortable to the people as they cannot predict the calendar date without seeing ''panchang''. The ''New Tamil Calendar'' proposes to use the tropical mean year length and fixed month lengths. The '''World Tamil Calendar''' follows the same leap year rule as the [[Gregorian calendar]]. So the mean tropical year maintains the span of 365.2425 days. The calendar dates are permanently synchronized with Gregorian calendar. The [[Indian National Calendar]], [[Nanaksahi Calendar]] and [[Bengali calendar]] are already synchronized with the Gregorian calendar. == Year == The Tamil year system is not a numerical system. It follows a 60-year cycle. ''Thiruvalluvar Year'' is the official Tamil calendar system in ''Tamilnadu''. ''Thiruvalluvar'' year starts in the Month of ''Thai'', and Tamil New Year starts in the month of ''Chithirai''. So the New World Tamil Calendar only changes the structure not the year. == Month == The current Tamil calendar system, Days of the months varies from 29 days into 32 days dynamically. We will fix the dates of the months either 30 or 31 days only. Normal year consists of 5 months of 31 days and 7 month of 30 days (5 Kuril , 7 Nedil, i.e. 5 ''ocean'', 7 ''continent''). A leap year consists of 6 months of 30 days and 6 months of 30 days.Β Initially 5 months from chithirai to Avani will be fixed by 31 days. Remaining months are fixed by 30 days. In leap years, an additional day (''Leap Day'') is added at the end of Thai Month to honor ''thiruvalluvar'', Tamil cultural festivals. Month names are either solar or lunar. {| class="article-table" |+ Overview ! SI No || Month Names in Solar || Month Names in Lunar || Gregorian Date || Total Days |- | 1 || Mesham || Chithirai || Apr 14 || 31 |- | 2 || Rishabam || Vaikaasi || May 15 || 31 |- | 3 || Mithunam || Aani || June 15 || 31 |- | 4 || Kadagam || Aadi || July 16 || 31 |- | 5 || Simmam || Aavani || Aug 16 || 31 |- | 6 || Kanni || Purattasi || Sep 16 || 30 |- | 7 || Thulam || Aippasi || Oct 16 || 30 |- | 8 || Vrichigam || Karthigai || Nov 15 || 30 |- | 9 || Thanusu || Maargazhi || Dec 15 || 30 |- | 10 || Magaram || Thai || Jan 14 || 30/31* |- | 11 || Kumbam || Maasi || Feb 13/14* || 30 |- | 12 || Meenam || Panguni || Mar 15 || 30 |} <nowiki>*</nowiki> - Leap Year.
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