Early Easter

[snopes]

Comment: Is this true?


This is Interesting To me anyhow!!


Do you realize how early Easter is this year? As you may know, Easter is
always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox
(which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar
that Hebrew people used to identify passover, which is why it moves around
on our Roman calendar.

Found out a couple of things you might be interested in! Based on the
above, Easter can actually be one day earlier (March 22) but that is
pretty rare.

Here 's the interesting info. This year is the earliest Easter any of us
will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our
population have ever seen it this early (95 years old or above!). And none
of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here's the facts:

1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year
2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if
you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).

2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year
2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So,
no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!

Interesting!

[Insensible Crier]

They are almost right. All the dates are correct for the years they provided but the next time Easter will be on March 23 will be 2160. Then the next one will be 2228.

ETA: Everything else is correct, at least according to my trusty little script I wrote. Yes I am an uber-geek.

[Tarquin Farquart]

That is quite interesting. I'm glad they haven't "standardised" Easter.

[BringTheNoise]

Originally Posted by Tarquin Farquart

That is quite interesting. I'm glad they haven't "standardised" Easter.

Although the council my mother works for (as a teacher) has, to a certain extent. The fortnight's holiday is always the first two weeks of March - although they also get Good Friday and Easter Monday off, which (usually) just causes more disruption than having a "roaming" two weeks off.

Easter is on my birthday this year, for the only time in my lifetime! <-(Pretending that's a party hat.)

[snopes]

Comment: Re the date of Easter:

I was taught years ago that the method for determining the date of Easter
was devised to make it impossible for the Christian feast of Holy Turrsday
(the last supper - passover meal) to occur on the same day as the Jewish
passower.

[Insensible Crier]

Originally Posted by snopes

Comment: Re the date of Easter:

I was taught years ago that the method for determining the date of Easter
was devised to make it impossible for the Christian feast of Holy Turrsday
(the last supper - passover meal) to occur on the same day as the Jewish
passower.

Well then they screwed up because in 2006 the first day of Passover was April 13, the same day as Holy Thursday.

ETA: I'm sure it happens a lot of other times but I'm too lazy to look right now.

[ganzfeld]

This is very interesting to me because when I was a kid Scientific American published the algorithm for computing the date of Easter. So my first real computer program that "did" anything was a program that computed the date of Easter. I wish I still had it.

[Insensible Crier]

Here's the algorithm I used. I got it from here: http://webexhibits.org/calendars/cal...an-easter.html

G = year mod 19

I = (19G + 15) mod 30
J = (year + [year/ 4] + I) mod 7

C = [year/ 100]
H = (C - C/4 - [(8C+13)/ 25] + 19G + 15) mod 30
I = H - (H/28)*(1 - (29/(H + 1))*((21 - G)/11))
J = (year + [year/ 4] + I + 2 - C + C/4) mod 7

L = I - J
EasterMonth = 3 + [(L + 40) / 44]
EasterDay = L + 28 - 31 x [EasterMonth/ 4]

[Brad from Georgia]

I happened to remark in class that Easter came very early this year, and one of my college freshmen piped up with "I thought it was always on December 25!"

Hi guys! I'm new here, but I've been meaning to join for awhile.

When I first saw this come up, I thought "Is anyone taking into consideration that this is a leap year, and consequently Easter is a day later in the year than it would be if it came on March 23 on a non-leap year?"

I found a website that listed all the Easter dates throu 4099. Guess what? It doesn't matter. All the remaining 3/23 Easters through then are leap years! What's more, the next three 3/23 Easters will all come before the next 3/24 leap year.

The only two non-leap year 3/23 Easters on the list were 1845 and 1913.

[jw]

Irish hoteliers call for an end to moveable feast.

It doesn't surprise me that hoteliers would look for whatever possible means, to line their own pockets, but how come nothing ever came out of this?

The IHF president pointed out that in 1963, Vatican II declared it would not object to a fixed Easter and that in 1975, Pope Paul VI with the World Council of Churches, proposed Easter might be celebrated on the second Sunday of every April.

[inkiemouse]

I have to come in here and poke my nose in and say that this Easter is my due date. :o

[Elsie]

Originally Posted by inkiemouse

I have to come in here and poke my nose in and say that this Easter is my due date. :o

My daughter was born on Easter Sunday* in 1999. Subsequently, I had to listen to a whole bunch of "look what the Easter bunny brought" jokes.

Looks like we'll get to celebrate her birthday on Easter in two years, although by then she may not have an interest in hunting eggs.

ETA: * several days late and by c-section (in case you're interested)