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::All of the easter holiday rules are catholic rules. But some of the dates required by the current task are dates when older versions of the rules were the "officially accepted versions". I would recommend, in addition to specifying the current catholic rules and the gregorian calendar, that we also change the task's example to use years from 1990 through 2020. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 17:00, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Easter is defined relatively simply, albeit with an odd combination of factors: it's the first Sunday ''after'' the first full moon that occurs ''on or after'' the day of the Northern Hemisphere's vernal equinox. The devil is in the details. The traditional rules make use of approximations rather than accurate astronomical calculations; the details of the approximations changed between the Julian and Gregorian calendars; and the Eastern Orthodox Churches never adopted the Gregorian rules. In 2012, Western churches will observe Easter Sunday on April 8th, but the Julian calculation places it on April 2nd, and because of the 13-day difference between the calendars, the actual date of Orthodox Easter is April 15th. -[[User:Markjreed|Markjreed]] 03:58, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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