RE: Gnome Calender Holidays

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

The hindu calendar, (well the malayalam calendar anyway) also is lunar
based.  Might be nice.  Abstract and then have the volunteers figure
out how to generate the calendars.

	sri

> hrmmmmm, I think it needs to go a bit more 'abstract' than that. For 
> example, I saw Jewish and Christian holidays and said - "What about 
> Isalmic holidays" - but then I realized, we are based on the lunar 
> calendar and only have 360 days per year (well, 30 days per month) and 
> sometimes it 'goess off by 1' during ramadan season (if you really want 
> to know what that is, mail me).
> 
> Anyway, any chance for a 'lunar calendar' type module? One that we can 
> "fix" by these 'off by one' anomalies?
> 
> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Hugo Gayosso wrote:
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> > I think that would be useful, because I have seen that lots of calendars
> > (software and paper) have these included.
> > 
> > But I think it should be like a "plug-in" or something like that, so you can
> > choose among:
> > 
> >         a) US holidays
> >         b) Christian holidays
> >         c) Jewish holidays
> >         d) Mexican holidays
> >         e) French holidays
> > 
> > 
> > And combinations of them.
> > 
> > 
> > On 23-Nov-99 Michael Vanderford wrote:
> > > Just wanted to know if anyone is
> > > interested in a file for gnomecal
> > > that consists of Holidays. ie Christmas, New Years, Etc.
> > > If so i can post this file to my web site or submmit this to gnome.
> > > (Not sure how to post it to Gnome but i can figure it out.)
> > > 
> > > Happy Holidays!
> > > 
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