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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!mareg
- From: mareg@warwick.ac.uk (Dr D F Holt)
- Subject: Re: Calendar (NEW)
- Message-ID: <6xmpb6wb@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
- References: <2906@ucl-cs.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:40:42 GMT
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- In article <2906@ucl-cs.uucp> P.Samet@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Paul Samet) writes:
- >Actually Easter is the first Sunday following the first full moon which occurs
- >on or after March 21 (Spring equinox), not March 20, as claimed.
- >
-
- Surely 'on or after March 21' is the same as 'after March 20'. But am I
- correct in thinking that if the full moon occurs on a Sunday then one has
- to wait for the following Sunday? So the earliest possible date for Easter
- is presumably March 22.
-
- Derek Holt.
-