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From: Andrew Usher on 19 Feb 2010 13:39 On Feb 19, 3:06 am, R H Draney <dadoc...(a)spamcop.net> wrote: > (On a more serious note, I'd like to see an actual printed calendar for Andrew's > proposed system...I have a gnawing unease that it may actually make Friday the > 13th *more* common than it is already).... I did not investigate this, as it is a useless superstition - Nevertheless, I can see now that it would make Fridays the 13th slightly less common than now. Andrew Usher
From: Andrew Usher on 19 Feb 2010 13:41 On Feb 19, 3:12 am, John Atkinson <johna...(a)bigpond.com> 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! You might as > well scrap the whole thing otherwise. Or are you suggesting that we > only take holidays at Easter every four years or so, when your settled > date just happens to correspond with the right lunar phase? I was taking into account the words of the Catholic Church that it would not be objectionable to fix Easter to a particular Sunday. But it must be a Sunday, and so the best that can be done is a range of 7 days, which my proposal accomplishes - Apr.5-11, which is exactly the middle of the current range. Andrew Usher
From: Andrew Usher on 19 Feb 2010 13:43 On Feb 19, 11:49 am, Evan Kirshenbaum <kirshenb...(a)hpl.hp.com> wrote: > > I think it was two years ago that the first night of Passover was on > > Holy Thursday (or vice versa), which precisely reproduced the > > historical occasion. > > Oh, that's what you meant. I though that you were talking about > Passover and Easter actually occurring on the same day. But if Holy > Thursday is taken to run from midnight to midnight (rather than > sundown to sundown), I don't think that that's possible, since the > Hebrew calendar doesn't let Pesach fall on a Friday (with the seder on > the preceding Thursday night). In Christ's time, there was no such rule, clearly. Andrew Usher
From: Andrew Usher on 19 Feb 2010 13:43 On Feb 19, 12:08 pm, JimboCat <103134.3...(a)compuserve.com> wrote: > On Feb 18, 11:13 pm, Andrew Usher <k_over_hb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Owing to the inconveniences which attend the shifting of the calendar, > > and attempting in passing to create a more perfect Church calendar, I > > say the following: > [snip] > > 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. > > Nonsense! JRR Tolkien's creation of the "Shire Reckoning" is clearly > the ultimate in rationality and convenience for a perpetual calendar. > > The year is divided into twelve months of thirty days each, with five > additional days to make up a full 365-day year; six additional days in > leap years. The additional days are not part of any week or month, so > any date always falls on the same day of the week. I said precisely that there must not be days outside the week. Andrew Usher
From: Andrew Usher on 19 Feb 2010 13:46
On Feb 19, 11:52 am, Halmyre <flashgordonreced...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > But, the whole point of Easter is that it has a full moon! You might as > > well scrap the whole thing otherwise. Or are you suggesting that we > > only take holidays at Easter every four years or so, when your settled > > date just happens to correspond with the right lunar phase? > > We don't have Christmas only when there's a bright star in the east. > > It's like saying "I was born on a Wednesday, so I'll only celebrate my > birthday when it falls on a Wednesday". The reason I fix Christmas to a Sunday has been my observation that arranging a family Christmas is substantially more convenient when it falls on a weekend than in the middle of the week. Given that Christmas is the most important holiday in the year, should we not all get at least a 3-day weekend, which we have for lesser holidays? Andrew Usher |