The Hindu calendar is region specific and needs to be calculated based on local longitude and latitude. Simply going by dates of celebration in India makes no sense whatsoever. The Indian Calendar available in India is prepared only for the specific Indian city, and it’s not applicable outside of India. This is mainly because of Longitude, Latitude, Timezone, Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise timing differences.
Even in India, calendar for one place is not valid for another. For example, this year, Gudi Padwa/Yugadi/Nav Samvat (Lunar New Year) falls on April 6 if you're in Mumbai, and April 7 if you're in Hyderabad. Even though both cities are in the same time zone, there is a 22 min difference in local sunrise times, and that makes all the difference.
For detailed panchangs / festivals list visit http://www.mypanchang.com
This thread maintains the temples outside of india observing festivals as per Indian dates. Hence misleading innocent people. This may be because lake of knowledge etc....
1) just found another temple in texas, celebrating mahashivratri on wrong day.
http://www.hsbv.org/2008/calender_2008_balaji.pdf
The weird thing is they put the newmoond and fullmoon dates correctly, but observing festivals that falls on those days on wrong days...
http://www.hsbv.org/
2) Sanatan Dharma Temple, Maple Valley, WA http://www.sanatandharmatemple.org
At present their site is still confusing, even after writing them.
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