Talk:Dominical letter

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Time Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Time, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Time on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please join the project.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's importance scale.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, now in the public domain.

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Dominical letter article.
Please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Ask questions, get answers. This is not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject.	Be polite Assume good faith No personal attacks Be welcoming	Article policies No original research Neutral point of view Verifiability

Contents 1 Make the introduction shorter 2 Author 3 C code 4 Questions 5 1712 in Sweden

[edit] Make the introduction shorter

The introduction should be shorter. Right now it redundantly states things that will be repeated later on. It is also difficult to understand.--Gheuf 19:24, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Author

The author of "The Oxford Companion to the Year is Leofranc Holford-Strevens (not Colfred-Strevens).--65.92.115.97 16:35, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. — Joe Kress 21:43, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] C code

It should be made clear whether m is 0-indexed or not. --Belg4mit 18:12, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Questions

I'm wondering about some points. Perhaps the answers could be included in the article.

- where the name dominical comes from?

- is the Dominical letter system still in use?

One specific question. The 3rd paragraph of the article says "In the original 1582 Catholic version, it did, but in the 1752 Anglican version it did not. " Versions of what? It is not clear to me if 'version' refers to a) versions of the calendar, or b) versions of the Dominical letter system. Thanks. Wanderer57 14:47, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 1712 in Sweden

What is the dominical letter of 1712 in the Swedish calendar?? Georgia guy (talk) 01:31, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Very interesting question! The year 1712 in the Swedish calendar had two leap days, February 29 & 30. The extra leap day restored that year to the Julian calendar after the year 1700 when it skipped a leap day, and 1704 and 1708 when Julian leap days were included. Using Calendrica, January 1 was a Tuesday in the Julian calendar. A lost leap day in 1700 meant that the Swedish January 1, 1712 was a Monday. Regarding it as A, the next Sunday is G. The two leap days decreased the Dominical letter to E. So the Dominical letter of 1712 in Sweden was GE, G for the Sundays between January 1 and February 28, and E for the Sundays between March 1 to December 31. This is confirmed by Easter Sunday/Jewish Passover Calculator by Robert van Gent, which yields FE for a normal Julian year of 1712. — Joe Kress (talk) 05:50, 26 November 2007 (UTC)