RE: [PHP-DEV] CVS update: php3

At 9:20 PM 6/2/99, Colin Viebrock wrote: >> Call it a learning experience. > >It was. Oh boy, was it. > >> Actually, I would question whether we want to include this at all. >> It just opens up the slippery slope to other such specific functions >> (which can be coded just as easily using PHP with perfectly reasonable >> performance), and it is also wrong for Orthodox Christians. > >Really? The formula seemed quite legit (and complex). The only sticking >point is when you assume you are using the Julian calendar as opposed to >the Gregorian. It's set for 1752, when England switched. Most of Europe >switched about 200 years earlier, I believe. Nope. Various churches calculate Easter quite differently. I have been told by several Catholic scholars that the Greek Orthodox Easter is probably the most accurate, fwiw... -- "TANSTAAFL" Rich lynch@cognitivearts.com webmaster@ and www. all of: R&B/jazz/blues/rock - jademaze.com music industry org - chatmusic.com acoustic/funk/world-beat - astrakelly.com sculptures - olivierledoux.com my own nascent company - l-i-e.com cool coffeehouse - uncommonground.com