10 Facts About Buddhist calendar

Buddhist calendar is a set of lunisolar calendars primarily used in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand as well as in Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam by Chinese populations for religious or official occasions.

In Thailand, the name Buddhist Era is a year numbering system shared by the traditional Thai lunisolar calendar and by the Thai solar calendar.

However, since the Metonic cycle is not very accurate for sidereal years, the Southeast Asian Buddhist calendar is slowly drifting out of sync with the sidereal, approximately one day every 100 years.

The Burmese Buddhist calendar in turn was based on the "original" Surya Siddhanta system of ancient India.

Buddhist calendar is a lunisolar calendar in which the months are based on lunar months and years are based on solar years.

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Since the main purpose of Buddhist calendar is to keep pace with the solar year, the new year is always marked by the solar year, which falls at the time when the Sun enters Aries.

Buddhist calendar Era was first introduced to Southeast Asia along with Buddhism in the early centuries CE.

Theravada Buddhist calendar tradition recognizes pre-Buddhist calendar Anjana Sakaraj since the events of the Buddha's life are recorded in that era.

The Thai Buddhist Era was further realigned to the Gregorian calendar on 6 September 1940 when Prime Minister Phibunsongkhram decreed 1 January 1941 as the start of the year 2484 BE.

Thai-style "Buddhist calendar", which is the Gregorian calendar with the Buddhist era, is supported in Java 8, iOS, and macOS.