The Maha Shiva Rathri Controversy

There is a controversy as to the exact English Calendar date on which Maha Shiva Rathri day would fall this year. Traditionally this happens around mid-February. Actually the correct Thithi is Chaturdasi in Maasi Month. That is the fourteenth day after pournami in the Tamil month Maasi. This year publishers of calendars have conviniently adopted the chaturdasi in Thai, even though Maasi is yet to be born!

This is the view being adopted in Tamilnadu by all the major Shiva Temples. But in the North as well as Kerala yeasterday was celebrated as Maha Shivarathri day.

Well, I am sure the God wouldn't actually mind having a double celebration, right?