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- >
- > Has anyone an algorithm to determine moveable feasts - such as Easter -
- > which is calculated by the year? by any other method?
-
- Popular question this past 2 days. Here is our kcEaster function from our KingCalendar product. Just pass it the year and it will
- return a TDateTime for Easter. Enjoy the code, it was a fun to write<G>
-
- function kcEaster( nYear: Integer ): TDateTime;
- var
- nMonth, nDay, nMoon, nEpact, nSunday, nGold, nCent, nCorx, nCorz: Integer;
- begin
-
- { The Golden Number of the year in the 19 year Metonic Cycle }
- nGold := ( ( nYear mod 19 ) + 1 );
-
- { Calculate the Century }
- nCent := ( ( nYear div 100 ) + 1 );
-
- { No. of Years in which leap year was dropped in order to keep in step
- with the sun }
- nCorx := ( ( 3 * nCent ) div 4 - 12 );
-
- { Special Correction to Syncronize Easter with the moon's orbit }
- nCorz := ( ( 8 * nCent + 5 ) div 25 - 5 );
-
- { Find Sunday }
- nSunday := ( ( 5 * nYear ) div 4 - nCorx - 10 );
-
- { Set Epact (specifies occurance of full moon }
- nEpact := ( ( 11 * nGold + 20 + nCorz - nCorx ) mod 30 );
-
- if ( nEpact < 0 ) then
- nEpact := nEpact + 30;
-
- if ( ( nEpact = 25 ) and ( nGold > 11 ) ) or ( nEpact = 24 ) then
- nEpact := nEpact + 1;
-
- { Find Full Moon }
- nMoon := 44 - nEpact;
-
- if ( nMoon < 21 ) then
- nMoon := nMoon + 30;
-
- { Advance to Sunday }
- nMoon := ( nMoon + 7 - ( ( nSunday + nMoon ) mod 7 ) );
-
- if ( nMoon > 31 ) then
- begin
- nMonth := 4;
- nDay := ( nMoon - 31 );
- end
- else
- begin
- nMonth := 3;
- nDay := nMoon;
- end;
-
- Result := EncodeDate( nYear, nMonth, nDay );
-
- end;