Research & Article

In the Thai record two distinct forms of reckoning can be found: civil dates reckoned in secular mode according to the luni-solar year; and religious dates elapsed reckoned in religious mode and according to the 5000 years of the Buddha. A variety of anomalies and variations in convention can be detected in this latter form of reckoning, though its use of round-number reckoning may be accounted for satisfactorily.