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The Buddhist calendar adds both an intercalary day and month on a usually regular cycle.

Lunar calendars

In principle, lunar calendars do not employ intercalation because they do not seek to synchronise with the seasons, and the motion of the moon is astronomically predictable. But religious lunar calendars rely on actual observation.

The Lunar Hijri calendar, the purely lunar calendar observed by most of Islam for religious use, depends

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