Easter Day

[said]

So, in actual fact, in spite of all your meaningless bluster, you still don't really know the dates.
I'll move on then!

Just pointing out the complexities, that's all! I have given you the date as near as can be calculated - and yes, do move on.........a long way on!

[said]

[QUOTE=Hamble;6629986]This is a great explanation.
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So basically speaking - no-one knows what day of the week it is today!

[Hamble]

[QUOTE=said;6629996]

This is a great explanation.
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So basically speaking - no-one knows what day of the week it is today!

As this is a Christian and Western country yes.
It works around 12 irregular months.

The Gregorian Calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world today. It is the calendar used in the international standard for Representation of dates and times: ISO 8601:2004.

It is a solar calendar based on a 365-day common year divided into 12 months of irregular lengths. 11 of the months have either 30 or 31 days, while the second month, February, has only 28 days during the common year. However, nearly every four years is a leap year, when one extra – or intercalary – day, is added on 29 February, making the leap year in the Gregorian calendar 366 days long.

The days of the year in the Gregorian calendar are divided into 7-day weeks, and the weeks are numbered 1 to 52 or 53. The international standard is to start the week on Monday. However, several countries, including the US and Canada, count Sunday as the first day of the week.


According to the Encyclopedia International, article "Week," the days were names for the sun, the moon, and the five visible planets, all of which were associated with pagan deities.

Hutton Webster's book
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"The early Christians had at first adopted the Jewish seven-day week with its numbered weekdays, but by the close of the third century AD this began to give way to the planetary week. . . . The use of planetary names by Christians attests the growing influence of astrological speculations introduced by converts from paganism. . . . Thus, gradually a pagan institution was engrafted on Christianity"

This planetary week with its days named after pagan deities is not of God. God Almighty did create the week with seven days, but He merely numbered the days one through seven.The only day he named was the 7th calling it The 'Sabbath'."


So I know that sunday is the Sabbath and Monday the first day of the week therefore today is Tuesday.

[Alikado]

Do you believe the Koran is made up of fairy stories?

Yes.

[Hamble]

Yes.

I would call them legends rather than fairytales due to the historical references and absence of happy endings.

[said]

So I know that sunday is the Sabbath and Monday the first day of the week therefore today is Tuesday.[/QUOTE]

Ah! but during the period of the Julian Calendar/Gregorian Calendar reform, there were several anomalies in which some months had as few as fifteen days and February had thirty days - there were many corrections that had to be made including a number of days completely dropped which varied from country to country. I think, for instance, the UK lost twelve days and Canada lost ten days or something like it. The historical concept of the calendar is arbitrary and not exact.

[Hamble]

So I know that sunday is the Sabbath and Monday the first day of the week therefore today is Tuesday.

Ah! but during the period of the Julian Calendar/Gregorian Calendar reform, there were several anomalies in which some months had as few as fifteen days and February had thirty days - there were many corrections that had to be made including a number of days completely dropped which varied from country to country. I think, for instance, the UK lost twelve days and Canada lost ten days or something like it. The historical concept of the calendar is arbitrary and not exact.[/QUOTE]


Shh! the tax man may be listening after
The English calendar riots of 1752?

[said]

Ah! but during the period of the Julian Calendar/Gregorian Calendar reform, there were several anomalies in which some months had as few as fifteen days and February had thirty days - there were many corrections that had to be made including a number of days completely dropped which varied from country to country. I think, for instance, the UK lost twelve days and Canada lost ten days or something like it. The historical concept of the calendar is arbitrary and not exact.

Shh! the tax man may be listening after
The English calendar riots of 1752?[/QUOTE]

Yes, It did not matter about people losing out on the number of days - but even in those times the Tax Man was not going to lose out!