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Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday

From Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday
Date 2024-02-26 12:43 +0000
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On 2024-02-25, Lew Pitcher wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 02:00:43 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>> [...]
>> Yes, the associated rites were of pagan origin. The dates of Easter -
>> the topic here - still not unique. There's different calculations for
>> different christian churches; the catholics calculate it differently
>> from the orthodox christians, still today. 
>
> As some countries recognize Good Friday and/or Easter Sunday as 
> statutory holidays, and have /legal/ definitions for those dates.
>
> For instance, the Government of Canada defines Easter Sunday as
> "the first Sunday after the first full moon in spring (after March 21st)".
> (I don't know if this coincides with /any/ religious definition or not.)

Close enough to Catholic -- "First Sunday after the first full moon
after the Spring Equinox".

Equinox is on the 19th, first full moon is the 31st. Should line up (at
least this year).


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Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-24 21:15 +0000
  Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-24 22:54 +0000
    Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-02-24 23:57 +0100
      Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-24 23:02 +0000
        Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-02-25 02:00 +0100
          Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-02-25 02:27 +0000
          Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2024-02-25 16:58 +0000
            Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-02-25 18:50 +0100
            Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2024-02-26 12:43 +0000
        Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-02-24 18:00 -0800
        Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2024-02-26 11:24 -0700
          Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-26 23:20 +0000
            Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-02-26 23:31 +0000
              Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-02-27 12:50 +0100
            Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2024-02-27 05:02 -0500
              Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-27 22:48 +0000
                Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2024-02-27 19:06 -0500
                Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-28 00:11 +0000
                Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2024-02-27 19:24 -0500
                Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-28 20:47 +0000
                Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-02-28 14:06 -0800
                Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-02-28 22:20 +0000
                Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2024-02-29 13:21 -0500
              Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-27 22:50 +0000
                Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2024-02-27 19:41 -0500
                Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-02-28 13:13 +0100
    Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-25 01:33 +0000
      Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-25 06:20 +0000
    Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday G <g@nowhere.invalid> - 2024-02-26 09:47 +0000
    Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2024-02-26 11:20 -0700
      Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-02-27 10:08 +0100
        Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-02-27 13:00 +0100
      Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-02-27 13:12 +0200
        Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-02-27 14:36 +0200
  Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2024-02-25 17:39 +0000
    Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-26 03:12 +0000
      Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-02-26 05:20 +0100
        Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-26 14:26 +0000
          Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-02-26 16:31 +0100
          [OT] personal things (was Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-02-26 16:43 +0100
        Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-26 14:32 +0000
          [OT] Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-02-26 17:10 +0100
            Re: [OT] Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-02-26 18:26 +0100
    Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-02-26 11:45 +0100
      Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-02-26 13:04 +0000
        Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-02-26 15:46 +0100
          Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-02-26 16:17 +0100
            Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-02-26 17:15 +0100
      Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-26 14:38 +0000
        Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-02-26 16:29 +0000
          Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-26 19:54 +0000
            Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-02-26 20:06 +0000
              Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-26 21:18 +0000
              Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-27 00:59 +0000
        Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-02-26 18:07 +0100
      Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-02-26 16:09 +0100
      Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2024-02-26 17:26 +0000
        Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-02-27 10:17 +0100
        Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-03-03 11:05 -0800
      Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-02-27 01:28 +0000
        Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-27 02:25 +0000
        Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-03-03 10:03 -0800
    Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-02-28 01:54 +0000
      Re: Calculate date of Easter or Good Friday Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-03-03 10:23 -0800

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