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- From: asimov@wk223.nas.nasa.gov (Daniel A. Asimov)
- Subject: Re: Calendar (NEW)
- References: <2906@ucl-cs.uucp> <6xmpb6wb@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 18:28:23 GMT
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- In article <6xmpb6wb@csv.warwick.ac.uk> mareg@warwick.ac.uk (Dr D F Holt) writes:
- >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.
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- Although the date of Easter is usually described this way, the
- *actual* date of Easter is, I believe, based on traditional but
- now outdated calculations, which once in a great while disagree with
- modern, "correct" astronomical calculations.
-
- Can anyone confirm or refute this?
-
-
- --Dan Asimov
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