Function getEasterDate(year As Integer) As Date Dim GoldenNum As Integer Dim daysToPaschalFullMoon As Integer Dim weekdayOfPaschalFullMoon As Integer Dim numDaysFrom21ToPaschalFullMoon As Integer Dim EasterMonth As Integer Dim EasterDay As Integer GoldenNum = year Mod 19 daysToPaschalFullMoon = (19 * GoldenNum + 15) Mod 30 weekdayOfPaschalFullMoon = (year + year / 4 + daysToPaschalFullMoon) Mod 7 numDaysFrom21ToPaschalFullMoon = daysToPaschalFullMoon - weekdayOfPaschalFullMoon EasterMonth = 3 + (numDaysFrom21ToPaschalFullMoon + 40) / 44 EasterDay = numDaysFrom21ToPaschalFullMoon + 28 - 31 * (EasterMonth / 4) + 13 getEasterDate = DateSerial(year, EasterMonth, EasterDay) End Function
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Visual Basic Function to get Eastern Orthodox Easter for a Year
From http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ortheast.html#ALG
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