#! /usr/local/bin/ruby # goodfriday.rb: Written by Tadayoshi Funaba 1998 # $Id: goodfriday.rb,v 1.1 1998/03/08 09:44:44 tadf Exp $ require 'date2' def easter(y) g = (y % 19) + 1 c = (y / 100) + 1 x = (3 * c / 4) - 12 z = ((8 * c + 5) / 25) - 5 d = (5 * y / 4) - x - 10 e = (11 * g + 20 + z - x) % 30 e += 1 if e == 25 and g > 11 or e == 24 n = 44 - e n += 30 if n < 21 n = n + 7 - ((d + n) % 7) if n <= 31 then [y, 3, n] else [y, 4, n - 31] end end es = Date.new3(*easter(Time.now.year)) [[-9*7, 'Septuagesima Sunday'], [-8*7, 'Sexagesima Sunday'], [-7*7, 'Quinquagesima Sunday (Shrove Sunday)'], [-48, 'Shrove Monday'], [-47, 'Shrove Tuesday'], [-46, 'Ash Wednesday'], [-6*7, 'Quadragesima Sunday'], [-3*7, 'Mothering Sunday'], [-2*7, 'Passion Sunday'], [-7, 'Palm Sunday'], [-3, 'Maunday Thursday'], [-2, 'Good Friday'], [-1, 'Easter Eve'], [0, 'Easter Day'], [1, 'Easter Monday'], [7, 'Low Sunday'], [5*7, 'Rogation Sunday'], [39, 'Ascension Day (Holy Thursday)'], [42, 'Sunday after Ascension Day'], [7*7, 'Pentecost (Whitsunday)'], [50, 'Whitmonday'], [8*7, 'Trinity Sunday'], [60, 'Corpus Christi (Thursday after Trinity)']]. each do |xs| puts ((es + xs.shift).to_s + ' ' + xs.shift) end