Today is Eid al-Fitr in India, however other parts of the world the festival was celebrated yesterday. The Islamic Calendar is lunar, meaning the dates of festivals depend on the moon cycles. Although there are now modern ways of knowing exactly what the moon cycle will be at a certain point on earth, a more traditional approach is favoured: simply looking up into the sky. Clouds, or geographic position, can therefore push the date of a festival.
Bonus:
The Islamic Calendar is about 11 days shorter than the Gregorian Calendar, and because of this the Islamic year (1438) is slowly catching up with the Gregorian year (2017). For half of the year 20,875 the year will be the same in both calendars, after which point the Islamic Calendar will surpass the Gregorian.
Bonus 2:
In Japan, poking someone's anus through their pants is (apparently) considered a lighthearted prank. The act is called カンチョー (Kancho).
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