Re: Holidays in different countries

[Denis Jacquerye <moyogo gmail com>]

You could maybe include the International days observed by the UN?
http://www.dakar.unesco.org/journees_un/journees_en.shtml
They are not public holidays at all, but they could be useful.

I don't think http://www.world-calendar.com/ is acurate either but it
mentions papers from
http://emr.cs.iit.edu/home/reingold/calendar-book/papers/ and it seems
like a good place to look for patterns (the claimed public holidays
are in red).

On 10/11/05, Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh farsiweb info> wrote:
> 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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