Brain broken!

[kiya]

I poked at the web and found a calendar for 1773 with holidays marked on it (for running the plot I'm currently running on NE2.

So now I know when Ash Wednesday fell in 1773, which is the critical bit of information that I needed.

The calendar also includes Martin Luther King Day, Australia Day, Professional Secretaries Week, Earth Day, International Labour Day, . . . Independence Day for the States. . . .

. . . I didn't know there was a Mother-in-law's Day. . . .

(gwynyth, if you didn't know about this thing, it's here and I got there from here. In case you would find such useful.)

Comments

[brooksmoses]

Oh, cute -- it's in Javascript, so you can see how they calculate it. And they provide (as a comment in the code) a link to a US Naval Observatory site (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/easter.html) that they got the algorithm for calculating Easter from, which has a good explanation of how things go.

The Naval Observatory site also comes with a Calculator page that calculates when Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday fall for a given year, and makes useful comments about the relevance of such. (For instance, for 1773, it points out that it's a Gregorian date and that the Gregorian calendar was not necessarily in use in non-Catholic countries then. And specifically that it was first used in England and the colonies in September 1752.)

- Brooks

[kiya]

Heh. :} Useful data that.

*continues to let her brain spin trying to work out precise Ash Wednesday events*