When is good friday in 2011?
I was just checking public holidays and noticed that in 2011, the Easter Holiday will line with Anzac Day as follows:
Good Friday Holiday - Friday 22 April 2011
The Saturday before Easter Sunday Holiday - Saturday 23 April 2011
Easter Monday Holiday - Monday 25 April 2011
ANZAC Day Holiday - Tuesday 26 April 2011 *substitute for Monday 25 April
[url="http://www.vic.gov.au/Victorian-Public-Holiday-Dates.html"]http://www.vic.gov.au/Victorian-Public-Holiday-Dates.html[/url]
So the good news is we will have one nice long holiday in 2011. From 22 April through to 26 April. That is 5 days in a row. Tha bad news is that we miss out on the usual Anzac day long weekend!
If you are interested in how the Easter dates are calcuated see here:
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday[/url]
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus[/url]
I was just checking public holidays and noticed that in 2011, the Easter Holiday will line with Anzac Day as follows:
Good Friday Holiday - Friday 22 April 2011
The Saturday before Easter Sunday Holiday - Saturday 23 April 2011
Easter Monday Holiday - Monday 25 April 2011
ANZAC Day Holiday - Tuesday 26 April 2011 *substitute for Monday 25 April
[url="http://www.vic.gov.au/Victorian-Public-Holiday-Dates.html"]http://www.vic.gov.au/Victorian-Public-Holiday-Dates.html[/url]
So the good news is we will have one nice long holiday in 2011. From 22 April through to 26 April. That is 5 days in a row. Tha bad news is that we miss out on the usual Anzac day long weekend!
If you are interested in how the Easter dates are calcuated see here:
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday[/url]
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus[/url]
Quote:Calculating the date
Good Friday is the Friday before Easter, which is calculated differently in Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity (see Computus for details). Easter falls on the first Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon, the full moon on or after 21 March, taken to be the date of the vernal equinox. The Western calculation uses the Gregorian calendar, while the Eastern calculation uses the Julian calendar, whose 21 March now corresponds to the Gregorian calendar's 3 April. The calculations for identifying the date of the full moon also differ.