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This is absolutely fascinating!
Georgia | 21.03.19 - 2:34 a.m. | #
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“Some years, such as 1818 and 1845, are made remarkable by Easter Sunday being kept in direct defiance of the statement made in the Act of Parliament (24 Geo. II. cap. 23)… Easter was never determined by the day of the ‘full moon,’ but by the ‘fourteenth day of the moon,’ which words ought to have been written instead of ‘full moon;’ and, moreover, the moon of the calendar is not the moon of the heavens, but an imaginary moon in advance of it, contrived for reasons we shall presently mention.” The English Encyclopædia, 1867.
Not the first time the date of Easter has caused a pickle. If only DG had been on hand to explain things so clearly!
Rich G | Homepage | 21.03.19 - 3:34 a.m. | #
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Very interesting read! What a pity my geography teacher didn't taught us about all this back in the school days.
TommyL4 | 21.03.19 - 5:00 a.m. | #
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Wow! Super fascinating write up.
Kevin | 21.03.19 - 5:48 a.m. | #
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Another interesting "Date of Easter" tidbit
Nick Atty | Homepage | 21.03.19 - 7:12 a.m. | #
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Really interesting - many thanks.
Liz | 21.03.19 - 7:27 a.m. | #
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Some sterling and interesting work there,DG.
Personally,I work out when Easter occurs by checking the diary. 😂😂
Jo W | 21.03.19 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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Hopelessly complicated. Why can't they just fix Easter in the calendar eg the first weekend in April?
Adrian | 21.03.19 - 9:10 a.m. | #
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And does Orthodox Easter, based on the Julian calendar, merit a similarly lengthy explanation, I wonder?
Chris | 21.03.19 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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Well...if can understand all that...! I don't know how you get your head round it all DG. I check my diary at the beginning of the year.
Every time that an Easter Sunday falls very early or very late, there are always calls to have a fixed date ie. 1st/2nd Sunday in April.
It would certainly suit schools as it effects their half term dates and the planning of a curriculum.
Dave | 21.03.19 - 9:45 a.m. | #
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Many years ago, early in my computer programming career, I was given an exercise to compute the day of Easter. I had to use all the rules that DG has explained so well. And write it using Assembler language! Madness (even then!)
CL | 21.03.19 - 9:53 a.m. | #
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Astonishing. How do you do it? Thank you.
Chris | 21.03.19 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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Magic!
If you went on Mastermind, DG, what would your specialist subject be? 'General Knowledge' perhaps?
Ta!
Joel | 21.03.19 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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The good news: You don't have to wait an extra month for chocolate eggs; they went on sale soon after New Year's Day, so there's an extra month's worth available.
The bad news: Sainbury's had a wicked one two years ago, cheaper and better than any others. Sadly they weren't so good last year because they reduced the amount of milk solids, and this year there aren't any.
Gerry | 21.03.19 - 10:57 a.m. | #
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The Finnish Church in London are holding their Easter Fair this weekend in case you don't want to wait a month to enjoy some Easter treats.
cliffh | 21.03.19 - 10:57 a.m. | #
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DG is so bored he's been reading the Book of Common Prayer, where all these tables are set out. This is how I used to while away boring sermons on Sunday mornings as a child.
Margaret | 21.03.19 - 11:59 a.m. | #
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Is this why Mother's Day and the clocks going forward are also so much later this year?
dg writes: Yes. No.
Cornish Cockney | 21.03.19 - 2:57 p.m. | #
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@Margaret Maybe we can expect a post soon on who we can and can't marry (assuming that DG has been reading the Table of Kindred and Affinity as well)...
Adrian | Homepage | 21.03.19 - 3:23 p.m. | #
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If you went on Mastermind, DG, what would your specialist subject be? 'General Knowledge' perhaps?
Surely DG's specialist subject would be Bus Stop M...
Hadders | 21.03.19 - 9:14 p.m. | #
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In the early 4th Century, Greenwich was an insignificant village in an far flung part of the Empire, 1,500 miles from Nicaea, and it would be 1,500 years before it became the internationally-accepted standard for time. Local solar time in Nicaea is almost exactly 2 hours ahead of Greenwich, and Jerusalem (which is where the events being commemorated happened) is a further 20 minutes ahead - so, where it mattered, the Equinox was at 02:19 this morning (March 21st).
It is also worth noting that the ecclesiastical day starts at sunset (i.e 6pm at the equinox).
timbo | 21.03.19 - 10:57 p.m. | #
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I'm sure there's some significance to the posting time of 01:43 but I'm blowed if I can see it.
dg writes: Look again.
Andrew S | 22.03.19 - 4:44 p.m. | #
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Fascinating. Thank you.
Miles Archer | 23.03.19 - 9:57 p.m. | #
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