{"id":15009,"date":"2016-03-26T22:48:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T22:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=15009"},"modified":"2016-03-26T22:48:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T22:48:14","slug":"spreadsheets-when-is-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-when-is-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheets:  When is Easter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor points out how a spreadsheet can show holiday awareness.<\/h1>\n<p>Most holidays, such as Valentine&#8217;s Day, Halloween, or Christmas, happen on a set date.  However, Easter is different.  As a child, I overheard it&#8217;s the Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of spring.  Hence, its date varies by year.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re using the spreadsheet <strong>LibreOffice Calc<\/strong>, however, you don&#8217;t need to wonder Easter Sunday&#8217;s date; in a cell, just type<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:monospace\">=eastersunday(year)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>then hit Enter.  The date of the given year&#8217;s Easter Sunday will show in the cell.<\/p>\n<p>For instance,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:monospace\">=eastersunday(2016)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>returns the date 2016-03-27.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Easter:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor points out how a spreadsheet can show holiday awareness. Most holidays, such as Valentine&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-when-is-easter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spreadsheets:  When is Easter?<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009,181,1056,1065,458],"tags":[1524,1074,1525],"class_list":["post-15009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-computer-use","category-lifestyle","category-seasons","category-spreadsheets","category-technology","tag-eastersunday-function","tag-libreoffice-calc","tag-when-is-easter-sunday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15009"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15016,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions\/15016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}