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From: Yusuf B Gursey on 19 Feb 2010 19:22 On Feb 19, 5:07 pm, "Jonathan Morton" <jonathan.mortonbutignorethisp...(a)btinternet.com> wrote: > "Yusuf B Gursey" <y...(a)theworld.com> wrote in messagenews:896542a4-e823-450a-8450-86d878949925(a)w31g2000yqk.googlegroups.com... > > >Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the > >civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date > >of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full > >Moon) following the vernal equinox.[3] Ecclesiastically, the equinox > >is reckoned to be on March 21 (regardless of the astronomically > >correct date), and the "Full Moon" is not necessarily the > >astronomically correct date. The date of Easter therefore varies > >between March 22 and April 25. > > It does, but at present (certainly until 2199, at which point we move to a > new table) it is not capable of falling on 22 March. Of course we had 23 > March in 2008 and there's a 24 April coming up next year. > > Regards > > Jonathan BTW I didn't write the quoted text.
From: Bart Mathias on 19 Feb 2010 19:24 James Hogg wrote: > [...] >> >> Andrew Usher > > Give the sound of your name, I suppose you would also renumber the > years, with year 1 in what is now 4004 BC. Another one goes right over my head. What in the world is special about how "Andrew Usher" sounds? Oh, never mind. I just googled "4004 BC." Bart Mathias
From: jimp on 19 Feb 2010 19:16 Andrew Usher <k_over_hbarc(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Feb 19, 4:56 pm, j...(a)specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > >> > Well, but for those who don't it doesn't really matter one way or the other >> > what day Christmas and Easter Sunday are, does it? So what relevance do they >> > have for you to bring them along? Or was it just the desire to sound clever? >> >> That a calendar serves a purpose beyond keeping track of regional, ethnic, >> or religious "celebrations" of one small group. > > It's hardly a small group, indeed perhaps larger than that for any > other significant holiday in the world. And the Gregorian calendar > that we use as already European-centered. New Years (of various sorts) is celebrated by far more people than is Christmas. >> And trying to come up with a new calendar fixating on Christmas is about >> as logical as fixating on Waitangi Day. > > This is just West-bashing. You have something against New Zealand? OK, Labor Day, also known in some places as May Day and International Worker's Day. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply.
From: R H Draney on 19 Feb 2010 21:35 Aatu Koskensilta filted: > >"Wovon man nicht sprechan kann, dar�ber muss man schweigen" > - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Dog Latin translation: "That man can't speak, but he sure can swing!" .....r -- A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this?
From: R H Draney on 19 Feb 2010 21:38
Peter T. Daniels filted: > >On Feb 19, 1:02=A0pm, Cheryl <cperk...(a)mun.ca> wrote: >> >> I want an official long holiday weekend in every single month, no >> exceptions. > >I thought they should have used MLK Day to commemorate the March on >Washington, rather than his birthday, since there are no holidays in >August. I always thought it should be observed on the anniversary of his assassination, so I could get my birthday off every year.... I also plumped for rolling back "Presidents' Day" to the original "Washington's Birthday" and "Lincoln's Birthday", further suggesting that *every* president's birthday should be a holiday...(Polk and Harding screwed things up by having their birthdays on the same day of the year)...as luck would have it, at the time I made this suggestion, that still would have left us with no holidays in June (Bush Sr came along a year or two later)....r -- A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? |