Hi Henrik
As the saying goes, "There's always one, isn't there?"
In Australia the holidays are all different, depending on what state you are in, and differ from year to year, depending on expedience. For instance all states celebrate the queen's birthday (Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, that is), but on different days. For instance, Northern Territory it was on the 11 Jun last year, 9 Jun this year, and 8 Jun next year. In Western Australia, the same holiday was celebrated on 1 Oct last year, 29 Sep this year, and 28 Sep next year. It gets very ugly, but I think it's done to give us long weekends during the best weather periods.
The official holiday listings for the 7 states can be found here
Northern Territory http://www.ocpe.nt.gov.au/legislation/holidays
Western Australia http://www.docep.wa.gov.au/lr/LabourRelations/Content/Wages%20and%20Cond itions/Public%20Holidays/Public_Holidays.html
New South Wales http://www.industrialrelations.nsw.gov.au/holidays/index.html
Queensland http://www.wageline.qld.gov.au/holidayslist/index.html
South Australia http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/show_page.jsp?id=2483
Tasmania http://www.wst.tas.gov.au/employment_info/public_holidays
Victoria http://www.vic.gov.au/VictoriaOnline?action=content&id=4383&image_id=371 &pageTitle=Victorian+Public+Holiday+Dates&track=Government+Entry+Point+f or+Victorians&nav=suppnav
Good luck trying to figure out that mess.
Cheers Vernon
-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2008 11:00 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Need info: National holidays
One of the new things in Hobbit 4.3 is that it can handle alerts happening on holidays. These will also show up on the "info" column page.
To make this easy, I need some information about the holidays in each country.
I already have code to handle the Christian holidays (Easter, Whit Monday, Christmas) - e.g. these are the holidays I have listed in my "common" section for 2008:
New Year 01/01
Good Friday 21/03
Easter Monday 24/03
Ascension Day 01/05
Whit Monday 12/05
Christmas Eve 24/12
Christmas Day 25/12
New Year's Eve 31/12I also have specific entries for the US, Germany and Denmark - see http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit-cgi/viewconf.sh?holidays for the current configuration.
So if you're from France, Italy, Australia, Japan or some other country and you would like to have Hobbit pre-loaded with your national holidays, send me a list of which days are holidays. If you can do it in the form of the configuration file it would be brilliant, but if not then just describe to me what days should be included.
(Please post them to the list - and DONT send it if it has already been posted by someone else, thanks!)
Regards, Henrik
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