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What happens (as in the Moslem calendar) when the calendar year is shorter than the solar year?

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What happens (as in the Moslem calendar) when the calendar year is shorter than the solar year?

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In that case, dates steadily slip relative to calendars like ours, where the year is kept close to the solar year (at least on the average). Dates are no longer associated with a given season of the year: a holiday that is in the summer one year, may be in the winter some years later.