Re: Bug #1502: New code for calculating Easter date?
| From: | Monte Ohrt | Date: | Mon, 07 Jun 1999 20:17:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Bug #1502: New code for calculating Easter date? | ||
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georgeh@blowtorch.com wrote:
>
> From: georgeh@blowtorch.com
> Operating system: All
> PHP version: 3.0.9
> PHP Bug Type: Other
> Bug description: New code for calculating Easter date?
>
> I'm not sure if this is best described as a PHP bug or a Christianity bug, but before
> some sort of religious furor breaks out over PHP, it might be noted that the various sects of
> Christianity and other Christianity-derived religions have been arguing for 1600 years about when
> Easter is. So the bug is that it only returns the right one for one of them, and it doesn't say
> which.
>
> This covers easter_date() and easter_days()
>
Maybe we can set a religion environment variable in php.ini :-)
I've kind of wondered myself why this was added as an internal PHP
function? Maybe it would be useful in a calendar program, but outside of
that I don't see its use.
Monte