From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How does Emacs calculate Easter Sunday? Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 23:11:33 +0200 Message-ID: <1B8AB049-03BA-4390-9E77-D509953A591A@Web.DE> References: <1341514935.12422.YahooMailNeo@web163104.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <3FE9DB99-982F-4442-9AFF-142650895368@Web.DE> <43212A3051534567848BB6A589CE9499@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341522708 19490 80.91.229.3 (5 Jul 2012 21:11:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:11:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, 'Enda' To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 05 23:11:48 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SmtKx-0006Tv-Pz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:11:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34576 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmtKw-0006pM-Li for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:11:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmtKr-0006pH-IJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:11:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmtKp-0004Ll-TC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:11:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:61521) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmtKp-0004LH-JD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:11:35 -0400 Original-Received: from sumac.fritz.box ([95.223.133.231]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb002) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MQ63n-1SiENC3oxP-0051lg; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:11:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: <43212A3051534567848BB6A589CE9499@us.oracle.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:vl0iQ4eSi8ac+sRFnufe3jH9cQd0fKY+t976UJmk/+e lIX0Iu+mEDSDxbhOlbL7ICaufit5n+7aCzOki0jkEPRwZ1fMCX Eb4SQw1Lsgo0r3fm6JZX1f8ZcveGpDw8s+P3khmqgz/HCkCf/c OblZnray+Oy8NYb9/CpefkT44YXe1uhX2dhOQnB2zf5a3iR6dZ v8F8lSSfasQl2TwOuexrg== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.17.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85690 Archived-At: Am 05.07.2012 um 22:15 schrieb Drew Adams: > It involves both the moon and the > sun: first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox = (in the > northern hemisphere). And Easter also stands for a clash of cultures, or genders: moon and = female vs. sun and male. Or their marriage... At least for some part of = the world. (Christians liked to recycle local traditions in order to = make the adoption of the new religion easy in those early days. So = Easter is probably much elder than a few thousand years. And folks then = could calculate the date without GNU Emacs! Incredible.) -- Greetings Pete (: _ / __ - - _/ \__/_/ - - (=B4`) (=B4`) - - `=B4 `=B4