How to read Hindu Calendar (Thread)

After reading this thread-
1. U will be easily able to read hindu calendar
2. Easily find out Hindu festival, fasts, pooja
3. Will be able to anticipate date just by seeing moon
4. find importance of tithis n plan ur work accordingly
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All Hindu festivals are celebrated as per Hindu Calendar. Lot of Hindus want to learn abt it but cud not get proper article

This thread is in the simplest language n after reading this Hindu calendar will be as easy as English calendar

So lets start
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First what is common between English Calendar (EC) n Hindu Calendar (HC)

- Both have 12 months in a year
- Both have 30 days month
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Now what's different-

- HC have exactly 30 days in all months but EC have 28, 30, 31 in different months
- EC have 24 hours days but in HC day can be less than 24 hours or can be more than 24 hours also
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- In EC new date starts at midnight 00:00 AM but in HC new date can start at any time of day like navmi was today up to 1 PM after that dashmi started.
- EC is based on solar cycle, HC is based on Lunar (moon) cycle
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