Hindi (Saka Era) calendar is not up-to-date in Outlook 2007.

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Jatin - 01 Nov 2007 07:53 GMT

Outlook is assuming that every Hindu month comprises of 30 days. However
Hindu calendar months are based on moon-cycle which has a period of about
28-29 days. So while some days are omitted, sometimes we have the same Hindu
date for two comsecutive days. Even if sometimes 12 moon-months don't seem to
complete an English year cycle, a month is appended. This maintains the
current month consistent with the weather changes.

Currently (I can't calculate how) the calendar is showing date which is
going to occur after 25 days in future. It's a shame why anyone from India
hasn't reported this?

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Diane Poremsky - 02 Nov 2007 03:03 GMT

are you using 2 calendar indexes and if so, are both dates wrong? or does
the hindi calendar match the wrong date?
Is the date on the computer correct? That is the usual cause of wrong dates.

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> Outlook is assuming that every Hindu month comprises of 30 days. However
> Hindu calendar months are based on moon-cycle which has a period of about
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> going to occur after 25 days in future. It's a shame why anyone from India
> hasn't reported this?

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Jatin - 12 Nov 2007 10:56 GMT

Thanks for reply.

Today is November 12, 2007. According to me, the Hindu calendar must be
showing Kartik 3, 1929. But I can see Kartik 27, 1929.

One more issue: Hindu calendar further divides each moon-month into two
halves. When moon grows, we have dates numbered 1-15 and when moon shrinks,
we have another set of 15 dates. The two halves are called "shukla" and
"krishna" respectively. In that respect, today is "Kartik shukla 3(tritiya),
1929" . These things are in the core of calendar and the calendar's
representation cannot be altered from this one.

I have a fair knowledge of Hindu (Saka) calendar and to most part, I think I
am not making any mistake. The calendar dates hardly change by +/-1 with your
location in the world. This also rules out the possibility of calendar's
correctness for a particular location in the world.

Hindu-date-calculator link:
http://www.chennaiiq.com/astrology/tithi_calculator.asp

> are you using 2 calendar indexes and if so, are both dates wrong? or does
> the hindi calendar match the wrong date?
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> > going to occur after 25 days in future. It's a shame why anyone from India
> > hasn't reported this?

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Jatin - 16 Nov 2007 09:00 GMT

Apologies from my side. This is a calendar introduced by our government in
1957 (for no good reason).

https://www.microsoft.com/uk/homepc/articles/new_years.asp

I don't know if any Indian abides to this calendar or celebrates any
religious festival based on its dates. It will be better if Microsoft
provides other popular Hindu calendars as well.

> Thanks for reply.
>
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> > > going to occur after 25 days in future. It's a shame why anyone from India
> > > hasn't reported this?

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Brian Tillman - 16 Nov 2007 13:30 GMT

> Apologies from my side. This is a calendar introduced by our
> government in 1957 (for no good reason).
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> religious festival based on its dates. It will be better if Microsoft
> provides other popular Hindu calendars as well.

Since holiday files are so easy to produce, why not do your countrymen a
favor and create the ones you believe are useful and offer them on a web
page for download?

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