Click the "Convert" button to initiate the conversion. This converter site has many available fields, each concerning a certain calendar. The modern calendar, as well as regulating the immediate year, is part of a system of chronology that allows events to be dated far into the future and the past so a given date includes day, month and year. Select this option if you want Google Chrome to alert you Furthermore, while Greek months were supposed to begin with the first sighting of the new moon, this was determined locally and with a degree of variability. This calendar is made available to you as a learning tool, and as a framework to begin or extend your practice of ancient Hellenic religious tradition. Had the Boeotians been speakers of an Ionic dialect, the one spoken in Athens, there would have been overlap in the names of months. theyear=yr;themonth=m;theday=d That is to say, the same month name was used twice in a row. A similar story comes from the 5th century, but at Argos: the Argives, launching a punitive expedition in the shadow of the holy month of Karneios when fighting was banned, decided to freeze the calendar to get some extra days of war in. One of the main roles of the civic calendar was to position the four assembly meetings that were to be held each prytany. It would be irrational to think that some periods of time run slower of faster than others or that in some regions of our planet the time flows in a different way from that in other regions. This extra month was achieved by repeating an existing month. Different star risings were keyed to various farm tasks, such as when to harvest: Hesiod in the Works and Days urges the farmer to harvest when the Pleiades rises (an event which elsewhere is set to mean the mark the end of spring). The solstice is when the rising and setting points of the sun on the horizon, which have been creeping north over the past half-year, appear to remain in the same place for a few days before beginning their drift back toward the south. January (1) February (2) March (3) April (4) May (5) June (6) July (7) August (8) September (9) October (10) November (11) December (12) Convert the date.