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Saturday 1 April 2023

What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.

Already Underway

Fast / abstinence
The forty days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday, Sundays not counted
Day 39 of 46
Forty days, counted excluding Sundays, which is why the span is forty-six.
Fast / abstinence
The whole of Ramadan, the ninth month
Day 11 of 29
Tabular reckoning, and stored as twenty-nine days so the month can never be reported as running into Eid al-Fitr. The month is twenty-nine or thirty days and begins on a sighted crescent in most communities.

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Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.