Re: Holidays in different countries

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh farsiweb info>]

I have received several answers about this, which I summarized on the
GNOME Wiki:

   http://live.gnome.org/HolidayInformation

Take a look in case you are interested.

roozbeh

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 22:16 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> 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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