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Calculate Easter in JavaScript
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/** | |
* Calculates Easter in the Gregorian/Western (Catholic and Protestant) calendar | |
* based on the algorithm by Oudin (1940) from http://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal/easter.php | |
* @returns {array} [int month, int day] | |
*/ | |
function getEaster(year) { | |
var f = Math.floor, | |
// Golden Number - 1 | |
G = year % 19, | |
C = f(year / 100), | |
// related to Epact | |
H = (C - f(C / 4) - f((8 * C + 13)/25) + 19 * G + 15) % 30, | |
// number of days from 21 March to the Paschal full moon | |
I = H - f(H/28) * (1 - f(29/(H + 1)) * f((21-G)/11)), | |
// weekday for the Paschal full moon | |
J = (year + f(year / 4) + I + 2 - C + f(C / 4)) % 7, | |
// number of days from 21 March to the Sunday on or before the Paschal full moon | |
L = I - J, | |
month = 3 + f((L + 40)/44), | |
day = L + 28 - 31 * f(month / 4); | |
return [month,day]; | |
} |
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