There are some instances, at least with Greek namedays, where a certain name is celebrated a different date every year. For example, the name "Lazarus" is celebrated the Saturday before Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday, which is at a different date every year. Can something like this be accomplished currently, or can I ask for this feature to be included in some future release?
Thank you.

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sajt’s picture

Huh :) The nameday module now is based on the date. This is not a perfect solution because for example the Easter can not inserted to it. It is looks difficult like the i18n.
When I started this module, the target was a little block. But if I like to make it an international module, (and I like) it must be work in everywhere.
We must to find a good programmed algorithm to this work.

I have some TODO with the this module, for example the integration with the date, the calendar module and the date API. But it is look's like the most important TODO.

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klonos’s picture

Title: Namedays with different date every year » Orthodox Easter and "movable" namedays (based on the current Easter day - different date each year)

You need to keep in mind that although the great majority of Greece respects the Western calendar (it is the official calendar used in Greece), there still is a small percentage of Orthodox that still go by the Julian Calendar:

Greek Old Calendarists / Ορθόδοξοι Παλαιοημερολογίτες (same article in Greek)

...Currently, there is a difference of 13 days between the two calendars.

A more precise explanation from the "Notes on Feasts with fixed dates in the Orthodox Calendar" section of the The Orthodox Ecclesiastical Calendar article:

The date of Fixed celebrations in the Orthodox calendar is made more difficult by the fact that there are currently differing schools of thought on whether to use the Gregorian or the Julian calendar to determine the date of the Feasts that occur on fixed dates. The two schools of thought are the "Old Calendarists" and the "New Calendarists".

The Old Calendarists use the Julian Calendar to determine the date of ALL religious feasts. This means that Christmas and Epiphany (for example) are 25 Dec. and 6 Jan. JULIAN, respectively. This (currently!) translates to 7 Jan. and 19 Jan. Gregorian, respectively.

The New Calendarists use the Julian Calendar to determine the date of Easter (and celebrations related to Easter) while using the Gregorian calendar to determine the date of fixed celebrations. Thus New Calendarists celebrate Christmas and Epiphany on the same date as the Western Christians, Dec. 25 and 6 Jan. GREGORIAN (respectively). Currently, the New Calendarists are celebrating the fixed feasts 13 days prior to the celebrations of the Old Calendarists.

klonos’s picture

There is #1180480: Algorithm to calculate Western/Catholic Easter date. specifically for the calculation of the Catholic Easter.