Re: Religious Discrimination :-) (was Loyalty cards again)

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> Tim Merrigan
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> writes:

>On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:36:24 +0000 (UTC), goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(David Goldfarb) wrote:

>>(And the Orthodox Easter comes a week later.)

>I have never understood this.  Do they use a different algorithm to
>determine Easter?  I think it should be the same as Western Easter.
>It's not like the fixed holidays which are on a different calendar.

The use different formulas for the date (in part because the Orthodox 
churches still use Julian calendars for religious purposes, and those have

a different set of adjustments to match solar cycles).

There was an attempt to redo the formulas for both churches in 1997, but 
it wasn't adopted by anyone, despite a joint declaration that it would be 
good to unify the dates.

There's a reasonably clear explanation at
http://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal/node3.html#SECTION0031311000000000000000

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