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Posted by The Wanderer on March 23, 2008, 3:28 am
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:19:51 -0700, Pogonip wrote:
> Emily Bengston wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 3/22/08 3:34 PM, in article wg4zv1j8y0ki.2m6lg20d1rkk.dlg@40tude.net,
>>
>>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:46:46 GMT, Emily Bengston wrote:
>>>
>>>> I want to wish all my friends on the group a most wonderful, blessed Easter
>>>> Sunday. You know, Easter will never be this early again until 2228, that's
>>>> 220 years from now.
>>>> Emily
>>> Beg to differ. I have it as another 152 years from now, 2160. :-)
>>
>> Oh well, I got the information from a cousin and didn't check it for
>> authenticity. I don't think I want to live that long, 152-years or 220,
>> even if I were able. LOL.
>> Emily
>>
>
> Snopes did an article on it.
> http://www.snopes.com/holidays/easter/earlyeaster.asp
And that's a classic case of wrong information from one source being
circulated on and on without being researched. Their article gives the next
23rd March as 2228. The silly thing is they also give a link
http://www.assa.org.au/edm.html#Index
to lists of Easter dates from another source which shows the next March
23rd as 2160, as well as various methods of actually calculating the dates
for any given year. I also found their references for the article rather
bemusing.
FWIW, I checked my info at the National Maritime Musuem (UK and associated
with the Royal Observatory at Greenwich).
--
Richard - The older I get, the better I used to be!
the dot wanderer at tesco dot net
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