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Absolute best example of "why the heck should I calculate that myself"

There's a date_sunrise() that found its way to the core too... There must be a datetime geek in the core devs

I wonder if they will deprecate the function after 2037?

nah, they will just add real_easter_date().

There's already an easter_days(), and comments complaining that it doesn't revert to the Gregorian calendar before the 1700's... http://php.net/manual/en/function.easter-days.php

Wouldn't that be easter_real_date()?

They will probably go with one for a single release before leaving it deprecated for years and switching to the other but never remove it from the core.