Talk:Holidays related to Easter: Difference between revisions
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::: [OT: Time.... to be the [[wp:Time Lord|Time Lord]] and just play with time... I heard [an urban myth(?)] that [[wp:Julius Caesar|Julius Caesar]] changed the first month of the year from March to the next January so as to increase his term in the Senate. Hence to this day Sep/Oct/Nov/December are no longer the 7th/8th/9th/10th months. It seems when you are the [[wp:Roman consul|Consul]]/[[wp:Roman dictator|Dictator]] of the [[wp:Roman Republic|Roman Republic]] you then have enough authority to bend time! EYHO Albert! :-) ]
::: [[User:NevilleDNZ|NevilleDNZ]] 00:33, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
:::: You're right about that being an urban myth, FYI. The numbering of the months dates from an older Roman calendar, older even than the one Julius replaced. The short-changing of February is just as old; the story of Julius and Augustus stealing days from it to make their months 31 days each is also a myth. --[[User:Markjreed|Markjreed]] 04:37, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
:::: For example: http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/estrdate.htm#MEDC -- for the year 2011, easter falls on April 11 and April 24 where in the year 2000, it fell on April 17th, April 23 and April 30. And things are much simpler now than they were in the past... --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 02:20, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
::: Well, all that I can really say for sure is that the code is probably wrong, but both the Algol and Tcl examples are wrong in the same way. (I know they're wrong because when I put in the day of the week, things are all over the place before the switch to the Gregorian calendar; that's an area where I'm pretty sure that the Tcl time formatting engine is correct; the guy who wrote the modern implementation is a ''serious'' time geek.) Given the massive uncertainty over calendars, I suggest not worrying about it. As noted, it's been a point of contention for the church for a long time even without programmers involved. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 09:33, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
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