ISO 8601:2000(E)
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calendar year [0001] differ from the year numbers in the "BC/AD calendar system", where the year "1 BC" is followed by the
year "1 AD".
In the Gregorian calendar each year is divided in 12 sequential calendar months as indicated in Table 1.
Table 1 - Calendar months
Calendar month
number
Calendar
month name
Number of days
in the month
Ordinal dates of the
days in common
years
Ordinal dates
of the days in
leap years
01
January
31
01-31
01-31
02
February
28
(leap year 29)
32-59
32-60
03
March
31
60-90
61-91
04
April
30
91-120
92-121
05
May
31
121-151
122-152
06
June
30
152-181
153-182
07
July
31
182-212
183-213
08
August
31
213-243
214-244
09
September
30
244-273
245-274
10
October
31
274-304
275-305
11
November
30
305-334
306-335
12
December
31
335-365
336-366
4.3.2.2
The calendar week
In parallel with the reference system described in 4.3.2.1, there is a reference system based on an unbounded series
of contiguous calendar weeks. Each calendar week has seven calendar days as indicated in Table 2.
Table 2 - Calendar days
Ordinal day
number in the
week
Calendar day
name
01
Monday
02
Tuesday
03
Wednesday
04
Thursday
05
Friday
06
Saturday
07
Sunday
The reference point of the week calendar assigns Saturday to 2000 January 1.
A calendar week is identified within a calendar year by the calendar week number. This is its ordinal position within
the year, applying the rule that the first calendar week of a year is the one that includes the first Thursday of that year