"The watch has to be manually adjusted to the correct date and month to account for leap months, amongst others.
"The Chinese calendar system is more complex, with a 60-year cycle with Chinese leap months, as compared to the Gregorian calendar's four-year cycle," he said.
Each month of the Chinese calendar, including leap months, begins on the day of the new moon, so its length is either 29 or 30 days.
A moon phase aperture is at 6 o'clock and the traditional Chinese month, date, and leap month are shown on another subdial at 9 o'clock.
Then the drama leaps months ahead: his incision has healed, his hair has grown in, he has resumed the regular routines of his daily life with his father, Tim, a horse trader (played by Jandreau's real-life father, Tim) and his fifteen-year-old sister, Lilly (played by his sister Lilly), with one exception: Brady can no longer ride in rodeos.
"For example, the next leap month will be in 2014, where there will be two consecutive ninth months," he continued.
Thanks to the insertion of a lunar leap month last year, the Chinese New Year holiday falls especially late this February (it begins on the 18th).
As a lunar year is approximately 11 days shorter than a solar year, a leap month is added at regular intervals to preserve the match with the cycle of the seasons.
This means that most years are shorter than the Gregorian calendar year: but a year with a leap month (13 lunar months) is longer, which explains for example why the date of the Chinese New Year varies so much from year to year.
He concluded that the ancient Rapanui used a lunisolar calendar with kotuti as its embolismic month (its "leap month"), and that Thomson chanced to land on Easter Island in a year with a leap month.
Once in the White House, they are scheduled to appear sequentially, day-by-day, depending on the lunar calendar, with adjustments made for leap years, months that begin with the letter "M," and the forthcoming primary schedule.
