EASTER

Syntax

EASTER (year%) where year% >= 1583

Location

Math Package

This function calculates the date of Easter Sunday for any given year after 1583 (when the Gregorian calender was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII to replace the Julian calender of Julius Ceasar which had been in use since 46 BC). EASTER returns the date as a floating point number, where the day is the integer part of the number and the month is given by the digits following the floating point, eg. PRINT EASTER(1993) shows 11.4 (April, 11th)

Example

Easter Sunday is used as a basis to fix other clerical days, so if two years have Easter Sunday on the same day, the other holy dates are identical, too:

100 INPUT "Year=";year
110 east1=EASTER(year)
120 FOR y=year+1 TO 32767
130   east2=EASTER(y)
140   IF east1=east2 THEN
150     PRINT "Next Easter Sunday on"!east1;". is in"!y;"."
160     EXIT y
170   END IF
180 END FOR y

NOTE

EASTER does not return the correct value on SMSQ/E for some reason.

CROSS-REFERENCE

GREGOR