Talk:Reform of the date of Easter

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"It has been proposed that the first problem could be resolved by making Easter occur (...) on a Sunday within a fixed range of dates."

Easter does occur on a Sunday within a fixed range of dates. · Naive cynic · 06:58, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Pedant! Vilcxjo 00:52, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

I've fixed it to say "within a fixed range of 7 days". Karl 9 November 2005

I've found some references (eg this Dutch page) to the League of Nations deciding on the second option (Sunday after the second Sunday) as a fixed date for Easter in 1926. There's certainly a bill on the statute books in the United Kingdom, the 1928 Easter Act, which provides for fixing the date, but it is not in force (see this debate.) I'll try and figure out how to weave this into the existing text. blech 12:07, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other methods

I can't find my sources but anyway.

Easter is celebrated seven sundays from Epiphany. [This makes Easter being celebrated between 22 Feb & 28 Feb.]

That sounds extremely improbable. Much more likely is that there may have been a suggestion of a fixed seven-Sunday Epiphany season before the start of Lent. That would place Easter in the range 9–15 April, or 8–14 April in a leap year, tying in closely with the existing proposals cited in the article. Vilĉjo 00:38, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Vatican II proposed Easter be celebrated on the second Sunday in April.

Easter Act of 1928 (UK) The first Sunday after the second Saturday of April. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.40.52.94 (talk • contribs).

[edit] Easter at year 30...

... to Friday April 7, 30

According to my calculations, the propper date is Friday, April 5, 30 AD, which is JD 1732111. Surprised, how close it is here attributed by many scholars...

But April 7 in year 30 should have been Sunday...?

About fixing the Easter to gregorian calendar? But it is now fixed to an astronomical calendar and the week much better... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.160.90.38 (talk • contribs).

The Unix program cal says April 7, 30 was a Friday. Some things to consider in your calculations:

• Wednesday, September 2, 1752 was followed by Thursday, September 13, 1752, due to the Gregorian Reformation.
• The years 100, 200, 300, 500, 600, 700, 900, 1000, 1100, 1300, 1400, 1500, and 1700 were all leap years, because at the time, the rule was just "every 4 years", not the current "every 4 years, except not every 100 years, except every 400 years".

Those two items introduce 23 days of change (10 for September 1752, 13 for non-400 century leap years), which (mod 7) gives the off-by-two error between April 5 and April 7.

--Psiphiorg 12:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)