Re: [Evolution] evolution-dev / weekends and holidays

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 09:40, Mårten Woxberg wrote:
> mån 2002-09-16 klockan 01.00 skrev Not Zed:
> > On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 22:07, Mårten Woxberg wrote:
> > > sön 2002-09-15 klockan 20.23 skrev Christian Borup:
> > > > On søn, 2002-09-15 at 17:28, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 14:39, florian wrote:
> > > > > > hi!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > im wondering if there is a way to import national holidays
> > > > > > to evolution in an easy way..
> > > > > if you can find a iCalendar file with the holidays, then you should be
> > > > > able to import that file into evolution's calendar folder.
> > >
> > > KDE's KOrganizer highlights holidays and weekends with red in the
> > > listings. It also automaticaly uses the correct holidays..
> > > These are two features that I miss in my calender..
> >
> > How can it guess the correct holidays?  They vary from country to
> > country and even province/state to province/state ...
>
> I have no clue, but since it's opensource I guess you could check..
> It's probably contributors who has provided them or something...
>
> I tried the link from Apple and it works fine except that in Sweden
> we have a Holiday on the 24th of December called "Julafton" which was
> not present in the "american proudced" file which had 25th as a holiday
> (which it is in Sweden too)

Odds are that this info is in a vcal file somewhere that you can import
into the Evolution calendar also.

Jeff

> > > The ability to send a whole month/week/day for checking with another
> > > user if he's available at the same time I am is also missed but 
> > > I guess thats because I dont run on an exchange server...
>
> Is there a way to do this? or do I need the Exchange server?
> I wrote a program for setting up meetings in Lisp last year but
> that was not the iCal/vCal fileformat... 
>
> > > > There are a whole bunch of holiday files at Apples iCal library:
> > > >     http://www.apple.com/ical/library/holidays.html
> <snip>
> > > > ./borup
> > > >
> > > >
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> Mårten Woxberg <marwo264 student liu se>
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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