Re: Holidays in different countries

[Peter Nugent <Peter Nugent Sun COM>]

Roozbeh
wouldn't CLDR be a good place to try to gather this data ?

in any case this is probably not an easy task
- another consideration is that some parts of the workforce get certain 
days off that others don't, see the Ireland data below
- you're right differnet parts of countries have different public 
holidays i.e. in Milan dec 7th is a public holiday as it St. Ambrose's 
day but not in other part of Italy.


here's the situation in Ireland :

January 1st
March 17th (St Patrick's day)
Good Friday (but only for public service and certain sections of industry)
Easter Monday (Monday after Easter Sunday)
First Monday in May (May bank holiday)
First Monday in June (June bank holiday)
First Monday in August (August bank holiday)
Last Monday in October (October bank holiday)
Christmas Day (25th DEcember)
St.Stephen's Day (26th December)

if any of the holidays above fall on a Saturday or Sunday then the 
public holiday becomes the first non holiday following that date.
so if Dec 25th,26th are Sat and Sun then Dec 27th and 28th become the 
public holiday.

hope this helps
Peter

Roozbeh Pournader ha scritto:
> I am trying to write some code to automatically create a list of
> official/public Iranian holidays, and I was wondering if that could be
> extended for other countries/locales, something that may become useful
> in GNOME or other free desktops.
>
> What I have came to, is that holidays are usually either a fixed date in
> a calendar (Shawwal 1 in every Islamic year is a holiday in many Muslim
> countries, Eid ul-Fitr), or use simple combinations of weekdays and
> calendars (fourth Thursday in November is a holiday in the United
> States, Thanksgiving). There are also weekly holidays (every Sunday in
> most countries of the world).
>
> I also know that holidays may vary in different parts of a certain
> country/territory. Different states in the US have different holidays,
> for example.
>
> But I am mostly ignorant of the whole picture. So, I am asking about
> feedback.
>
> I would appreciate it if you could please tell me about the pattern
> holidays follow in your country. Please email me privately. I will try
> to round up the information and post it to the pages for the giulia
> (a.k.a. gnome locale) project.
>
> roozbeh
>
>
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