Can any of the Christians out there explain to me how Easter Date is arrived at?
The date of Easter was chosen to match in some sense the dates of the last supper and the resurrection in the Bible, but the details are pretty complicated; and they became even more complicated after the church switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1582. The simple algorithm for Easter is the following: Select the first Sunday after the first full moon that falls on or after the date of the vernal equinox. For the times of full moon and equinox, use Universal Time (i.e., the time in England). This simple algorithm is not the actual algorithm, but it is correct in most years. From now until 2050, it is correct except in the following years: 2019 2038 2045 2049 The rationale for this algorithm is the following: The resurrection occurred on the Sunday following the last supper. The last supper was a Passover seder, and the date of Passover is based on the Jewish calendar. Passover usually occurs roughly on the date of the full moon after the vernal equinox. (But occasiona
