Posted by tpc at February 11th, 2009

The government announced today that Deepavali, a public holiday will have its date changed from 15th November to 17th October, a difference of one whole month. This Indian holiday is based on the lunar calendar and sightings of the moon. Apparently a local mathematician who is into calendars, did the computations and showed the original computation is wrong. Well, at least this time, they listened to the one who knows maths.