The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Observed On This Date
Procession
2 February, the fortieth day after Christmas
Already Underway
Seasonal turning point
1-2 February
Day 2 of 2
Fast / abstinence
The whole of Ramadan, the ninth month
Day 29 of 29
Tabular reckoning, and stored as twenty-nine days so the month can never be reported as running into Eid al-Fitr. The month is twenty-nine or thirty days and begins on a sighted crescent in most communities.
Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.