Brian Dunning's FileMaker Custom Functions

Easter ( theYear )

Calculates the date of Easter sunday of a given year

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Reinder Wolting   Reinder Wolting
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  Sample input:
Easter ( 2008 )
  Sample output:
23-03-2008

  Function definition: (Copy & paste into FileMaker's Edit Custom Function window)

Calculates the date of Easter sunday of a given year.
By adding 39 days to this date you have the date of Ascension Day
By adding 49 days you also have the date of Whitsun.

 

Comments

comment   comment, VR
Aug 7, 2011
This function returns incorrect results for all years before 1583.
 
Reinder Wolting   Reinder Wolting, Huizen
Aug 7, 2011
Maybe the description for this function should be: Calculates the date of Easter sunday in the Gregorian calendar.
 
Alex   Alex
Sep 29, 2011
Hi, I have a problem with this formula, as the output date is not recognized equal to a the field "DateofMonth". I mean:
DateofMonth (08/04/2012) is not recognized equal to EasterDate (08/04/2012) this one calculated with your formula. This I need to mark on a calendar form the holiday date. How it is possible?
 

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