C Library Functions - easter (3)

NAME

easter(3f) - [M_time:ASTROLOGICAL] calculate date for Easter given a year (LICENSE:MIT)

Synopsis
Description
Options
Results
Example

SYNOPSIS

subroutine easter(year,dat)

    integer, intent(in)  :: year
    integer, intent(out) :: dat

DESCRIPTION

The Date of Easter (Sunday)

The algorithm is due to J.-M. Oudin (1940) and is reprinted in the Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac, ed. P. K. Seidelmann (1992). See Chapter 12, "Calendars", by L. E. Doggett.

The following are dates of Easter from 1980 to 2024:

1980 April 6 1995 April 16 2010 April 4 1981 April 19 1996 April 7 2011 April 24 1982 April 11 1997 March 30 2012 April 8 1983 April 3 1998 April 12 2013 March 31 1984 April 22 1999 April 4 2014 April 20 1985 April 7 2000 April 23 2015 April 5 1986 March 30 2001 April 15 2016 March 27 1987 April 19 2002 March 31 2017 April 16 1988 April 3 2003 April 20 2018 April 1 1989 March 26 2004 April 11 2019 April 21 1990 April 15 2005 March 27 2020 April 12 1991 March 31 2006 April 16 2021 April 4 1992 April 19 2007 April 8 2022 April 17 1993 April 11 2008 March 23 2023 April 9 1994 April 3 2009 April 12 2024 March 31

N.B. The date of Easter for the Eastern Orthodox Church may be different.

OPTIONS

year Year for which to calculate day that Easter falls on

RESULTS

dat Date array for noon on Easter for the specified year

EXAMPLE

Sample program:

    program demo_easter
    use M_time, only : easter, fmtdate
    implicit none
    integer :: year
    integer :: dat(8) ! year,month,day,tz,hour,minute,second,millisecond
      call date_and_time(values=dat)  ! get current year
      year=dat(1)
      call easter(year, dat)
      write(*,*)fmtdate(dat,&
      "Easter day: the %d day of %L in the year of our Lord %Y")
    end program demo_easter

Sample output:

Easter day: the 16th day of April in the year of our Lord 2017

Nemo Release 3.1

easter (3)

February 23, 2025

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