[LEAPSECS] Calendar reform

[Tony Finch]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, David Malone wrote:


> Easter is quite early this year - early enough that St Patrick's

> day and Good Friday fall in the same week. This is seemingly a

> suprise for the Irish Hoteliers, and is making their life hard:

>

> 	http://www.examiner.ie/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=business-qqqm=business-qqqa=business-qqqid=56851-qqqx=1.asp


For 80 years the UK has had an act on the statute books that says Easter
should be the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April. However the
act has never been brought into force.

http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?ActiveTextDocId=1080813

Tony.
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