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vu/src/calendar/easter.ts
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will 67037469fc calendar: compute real Easter dates and temporal-cycle seasons
resolveDay() no longer hardcodes season: 'trinitytide'. Easter is
computed via the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm (verified against 16
known reference dates spanning 1583-2100); Advent/Christmastide/
Epiphanytide follow the Christmas-anchored rules (including Advent's
"Sunday nearest Nov 30"); Septuagesima through Trinitytide come from
easter-offsets.yml, reshaped from single named anchor points into real
ranges plus single-day overrides for Corpus Christi and Sacred Heart.

occurring feasts (calendar/feasts.ts) are still a stub — the sanctoral
calendar and Double-vs-not ranking are a separate, larger project.
2026-08-10 05:27:12 -04:00

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// Computus (the date of Easter, and everything the temporal cycle hangs off
// of it — Septuagesima, Ash Wednesday, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday).
//
// This is the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm (a.k.a. Meeus/Jones/Butcher),
// valid for the whole Gregorian era (1583 onward). Hand-rolled rather than
// pulling in a dependency: it's ~15 lines of pure integer arithmetic with a
// long history of independent verification (see calendar/easter.test.ts),
// not something that benefits from a library's abstraction or maintenance
// surface for an app with zero runtime dependencies otherwise.
import type { CalendarDate } from './date-math';
export function easterSunday(year: number): CalendarDate {
const a = year % 19;
const b = Math.floor(year / 100);
const c = year % 100;
const d = Math.floor(b / 4);
const e = b % 4;
const f = Math.floor((b + 8) / 25);
const g = Math.floor((b - f + 1) / 3);
const h = (19 * a + b - d - g + 15) % 30;
const i = Math.floor(c / 4);
const k = c % 4;
const l = (32 + 2 * e + 2 * i - h - k) % 7;
const m = Math.floor((a + 11 * h + 22 * l) / 451);
const n = h + l - 7 * m + 114;
const month = Math.floor(n / 31);
const day = (n % 31) + 1;
return { year, month, day };
}