I haven't heard much of that, thank goodness, but the two or three times I have heard it I've found it extremely jarring. "WTF?! Did I screw up my calendar? I thought Eid was like a month or so ago! Oh wait, they're confused. *whew*"
Then again, I wonder how many of them think Chanukah always overlaps Christmas instead of just being near Christmas. In past years I've overheard folks "trying to be culturally sensitive" wishing others a happy Chanukah when Chanukah had ended more than a week earlier.
I guess some folks will be really confused when Ramadan slides around to July.
It's not like Christian holidays don't move, either.
Easter certainly does, and there are a raft of holy days that revolve around the timing of Easter.
(And, really, Jewish and Muslim holidays only move in respect to the Gregorian year. So far as I'm concerned, the Jewish holidays are on the same dates. Chanukah is always 25 Kislev. :))
I think just the movment confuses everyone. We live in a fairly Catholic area. Every single person we've talked to for the wedding, commented on how odd it was that April was very slow until the 22nd, when suddenly everyone wanted that date. Well. Its the first saturday after easter. Before that its Lent, where you can get married, but only if the priest is willing, and you have a very solem wedding, so everyone in our fairly Catholic area that wants get married, has to wait. Also, even when Easter is late, retailers break out the easter stuff at the same time. Its kinda funny when there's easter stuff before Lent starts. (Or its early and your hoping they'll break out the easter stuff before easter, though thats less of a thing now, since they start pretty early anyway. (All the funnier for the fact that the combined protestent forms and Catholicism are the two largest religions in the US)
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Date: 2005-12-22 06:59 pm (UTC)Then again, I wonder how many of them think Chanukah always overlaps Christmas instead of just being near Christmas. In past years I've overheard folks "trying to be culturally sensitive" wishing others a happy Chanukah when Chanukah had ended more than a week earlier.
I guess some folks will be really confused when Ramadan slides around to July.
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Date: 2005-12-22 11:14 pm (UTC)It's not like Christian holidays don't move, either.
Easter certainly does, and there are a raft of holy days that revolve around the timing of Easter.
(And, really, Jewish and Muslim holidays only move in respect to the Gregorian year. So far as I'm concerned, the Jewish holidays are on the same dates. Chanukah is always 25 Kislev. :))
Not that anyone remembers when Easter is.
Date: 2005-12-24 02:17 am (UTC)