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From: Robert Bannister on 21 Feb 2010 20:01 Yusuf B Gursey wrote: > On Feb 19, 11:25 am, Mike Barnes <mikebar...(a)bluebottle.com> wrote: >> John Atkinson <johna...(a)bigpond.com>: >> >>> Halmyre wrote: >>>> I just wish they'd settle on a date for Easter and be done with it. >>> But, the whole point of Easter is that it has a full moon! >> A full-*ish* moon, actually. The definitions of the equinox and full >> moon used when determining Easter are rather different from the real >> definitions used by astronomers, which would actually give rise to >> different (perhaps several weeks different) Easter dates depending on >> one's longitude. >> >> But I thought that for most people the whole point of Easter is that >> they get time off work. >> > > not in the US, at least not in my state. Are you saying that Easter is not a holiday in your state? -- Rob Bannister
From: Robert Bannister on 21 Feb 2010 20:04 Peter T. Daniels wrote: > On Feb 21, 12:20 am, Yusuf B Gursey <y...(a)theworld.com> wrote: >> On Feb 19, 11:25 am, Mike Barnes <mikebar...(a)bluebottle.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> John Atkinson <johna...(a)bigpond.com>: >>>> Halmyre wrote: >>>>> I just wish they'd settle on a date for Easter and be done with it. >>>> But, the whole point of Easter is that it has a full moon! >>> A full-*ish* moon, actually. The definitions of the equinox and full >>> moon used when determining Easter are rather different from the real >>> definitions used by astronomers, which would actually give rise to >>> different (perhaps several weeks different) Easter dates depending on >>> one's longitude. >>> But I thought that for most people the whole point of Easter is that >>> they get time off work. >> not in the US, at least not in my state. > > ? Time off? Offices aren't open on Sundays anyway, and retail stores > haven't closed on holidays in years. Right. Not only are both Friday and Monday holidays, the Friday is the most closed up holiday of all in Australia - worse than Christmas Day - no paper, no shops, no pubs, no nothing. We do seem to be moving rapidly to shops being open every day; our government tells us this is progress; I am not convinced. -- Rob Bannister
From: Brian M. Scott on 21 Feb 2010 20:07 On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:01:15 +0800, Robert Bannister <robban1(a)bigpond.com> wrote in <news:7ue3asF7eoU4(a)mid.individual.net> in sci.math,sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.lang,alt.usage.english: > Yusuf B Gursey wrote: >> On Feb 19, 11:25 am, Mike Barnes >> <mikebar...(a)bluebottle.com> wrote: [...] >>> But I thought that for most people the whole point of >>> Easter is that they get time off work. >> not in the US, at least not in my state. > Are you saying that Easter is not a holiday in your state? He's saying that people don't get time off work on account of it. Which is doubtless true; I don't, either. Brian
From: Greg Hennessy on 21 Feb 2010 20:14 ["Followup-To:" header set to sci.astro.] >>> But I thought that for most people the whole point of Easter is that >>> they get time off work. >> >> not in the US, at least not in my state. > > Are you saying that Easter is not a holiday in your state? He's probably saying that most people don't get Easter off, since they don't work on Sundays.
From: Robert Bannister on 21 Feb 2010 20:15
Andrew Usher wrote: > On Feb 19, 6:07 pm, Robert Bannister <robb...(a)bigpond.com> wrote: > >>> 6. This is surely the best possible arrangement that can be made, >>> without disturbing the cycle of weeks or that of calendar days >>> inherited from the Romans. >> If you are going to try to make it sensible, then please give us 13 >> four-week months with one or two specially named days at the end of the >> year to even it out. The first day of each month should be a Monday. > > Once again, I said that I excluded having days outside the week. And > the first day of the week is Sunday, not Monday - that is an > incontrovertible fact. Oh dear. I had thought that you weren't a crank up till now. > > Having 13 months, in addition, would screw up a bunch of things ; in > particular, 13 can't be divided. Why is that so important? Why is not having days outside the week important? I seem to have lost the point of having a calendar change. -- Rob Bannister |