How do we know Easter was on Sunday?
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Yes, for the April 3rd part only. As the article shows, it was in the middle of the Jewish month of Nissan, 33 AD.
Any references though to April are just to help us locate in the modern, Gregorian calendar. Any date conversions made between Julian and Gregorian do take into account the 10 day correction made in the 1500’s (one of the main reasons for switching to Gregorian was to correct the 1 day per century error in the Julian calendar, by refining the rules for determining leap years).
There are 10 days that do not exist
The week days skip from Tuesday to Saturday
Correct, 10 days were skipped, in the Gregorian reform in 1500’s. The Hebrew days of the week of course did not use our English day names, however 14 Nissan was the 6th day of their week, which we modern folk call Friday.
Can we agree that Easter Sunday is ceremonial and may not be historically accurate?
After the 10 day hop wouldn't what-was-Sunday be on a Wednesday?
Quoting Wikipedia “Thursday 4 October 1582 was followed by Friday 15 October 1582.”
OK ---- I'm getting conflicting sources --- So, you thought that was weird?
There was another calendar shift in September 1752 to fix a coding error
So in mid-1975, some high-level AT&T officials met with the Pope, and came to an agreement. The calendar was retroactively changed to bring September 1752 in line with UNIX reality.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17903/is-cal-broken-what-happened-in-september-1752
The command "cal 9 1752" gives
That’s a /humor post (it was a joke)