Dates and stuff.

Suggestion in my paper that the date of Easter should be fixed at around the end of April - the idea being that that would increase the chance of having decent weather for the holiday. Easter is of course a festival of the Christian Church and therefore it would require the world-wide agreement of the Church to make such a change. But that would never happen - mainly because the gospels make it clear that Jesus's arrest, trial and execution took place at the time of the Jewish feast of Passover, and the timing of that depends on the Jewish lunar calendar, and therefore varies year to year. You couldn't break the association between Easter and Passover - it would make no sense. What could be done of course is to disassociate the holiday from the Church festival - just as has been done with Whitsun. The problem would be Good Friday - I imagine there would be considerable opposition to that being treated as a normal working day.