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Re: [Bug-gcal] documentation patch for calculation of Easter
From: |
Giuseppe Scrivano |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-gcal] documentation patch for calculation of Easter |
Date: |
Tue, 11 May 2010 10:43:21 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
finally I took a look at your patch, I have fixed only the typo in the
comment.
This is what I will push:
>From 207d7a7afc684c56ae995746b0d4b4f80d56efff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denis Excoffier <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:40:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix typo.
---
src/utils.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/utils.c b/src/utils.c
index 8afde5d..15d0e2f 100644
--- a/src/utils.c
+++ b/src/utils.c
@@ -2145,7 +2145,7 @@ knuth_easter_formula (year)
`epact' is the age of the calendar Moon at the beginning of the year.
`extra_days' specifies when Sunday occurs in March. `epact' specifies
when Full Moon occurs. Easter is the first Sunday following the first
- Full Moon which occus on or after March 21. (Ref.: De Morgan, A Budget
+ Full Moon which occurs on or after March 21. (Ref.: De Morgan, A Budget
of Paradoxes)
This basic Algorithm was given by Don Knuth in CACM 5(1962), 209-210,
and is altered accordingly for managing different Gregorian Reformation
--
1.7.1
Thanks,
Giuseppe
Denis Excoffier <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Please find enclosed a patch for the documentation about the date of
> Easter,
> in src/utils.c (from gcal-3.5.1).
>
> Feel free to apply it or not, partially or not. I know that it
> deviates a little
> from the original text by Donald Knuth. This is only a proposal.
>
> Regards,
>
> Denis Excoffier.