ANNOUNCE: A *second* Python 2.1 release candidate!

[Robin Becker]

In article <mailman.988026042.12373.python-list at python.org>, Moshe Zadka
<moshez at zadka.site.co.il> writes
>On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Easter and Passover are both determined using the Lunar calendar so
>> probably they're linked to other religions; certainly in northern Europe
>> there are plenty of Lunatics.
>
>Err....that's wrong. Passover is determined using the Jewish calendar
>which is a hybrid of Lunar and Solar calendars.
>(The reason is that it has to be in the spring in Israel, so when
>it drifts too far by the Lunar calendar, it's delayed a month.)
so hybridisation removes the dependency? The northern lunatics have been
doing this hybridisation for a while as well which is why Roman Easter
doesn't drift to far from the old spring festival.
-- 
Robin Becker