On many days of the year the traditional religious calendar forbade business of any sort.

"My mother always followed her birthday according to the traditional Chinese calendar," she said recently.

The following table gives an overview about the partition of the year in the traditional Indian calendar.

Thailand no longer uses the traditional lunisolar calendar to mark the new year's day.

For instance, take a school with 750 children on a traditional, 180-day calendar.

As of 2010 it follows a traditional year-round calendar.

The traditional calendar designated its years via Korean era names from 270 to 963.

School is in session for 180 days per year on a traditional 9-month calendar.

Tabaung is the last month of the year in the traditional Burmese calendar.

And even in school districts that operate on a more traditional calendar, some start before Labor Day while others wait until it has passed.