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i dont think your question unappropriate at all.
the gregorian calender works on solar days whilst the islamic calender works on lunar days.
there are 354 lunar days in a year, and no the dates of islamic festivals are not set at gregorian calender dates.
hence you have festivities 'creep' forward 11 days every year. for example this year ramadan started on september 1st, whereas last year it started on 12th of september if i recall correctly.
the islamic year starts at 'Hijra' which is the emigration of the prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622AD. since then 1429 years have passed in the islamic calender.
so theoretically the islamic calender will catch up to the gregorian calender in the year in the year 20874 (yes thats the year twenty thousand eight hundred and seventy four). this is because for every 33 or so years the islamic calender catches up to the gregorian calender by 1 year.
sorry for the trivia. good for someone to notice though.
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