The statement carried by the official news agency also added that 1st of Shawwal 1434 AH will be on August 9, 2013 which will be the day of Eid ul Fitr.
These dates are different from the calculated calendar of Ummul Qura, Saudi Arabia which sets both dates one day earlier. Apparently, the Planetarium used visibility of the crescent moon for local sighting in the UAE as the basis of the calculation.
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