just like the argument about which week is 'next' week (solved by the coinage 'oxt' that I dealt with in an earlier post), this argument about when a date for something has been changed, whether we should say a later date is 'forward' or 'back', is a problem because different people think opposite answers are obviously the right one. My vote is for 'back'.
If you fancy a challenge (my brain has melted just a little) read this linguistic exploration of why there's confusion - some lovely examination of time metaphors to boot.
http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~nunez/web/timeaftertimeF+.pdf
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