Henrik,

For Holland there is alse the Queens birthday at 30/4

Regards,

Bert Klomp

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: donderdag 3 januari 2008 15:00 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  31/12

I 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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On Jan 3, 2008 2:00 PM, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

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  31/12

I 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!)

Google calendar has a list of national holidays covering around 30 nationalities.

UK (information cross-checked with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Holiday)

England and Wales

New Year

New Year:type=static month=1 day=1

Note that in the UK if this falls on a weekend then the next weekday

is usually a holiday.

Christian Easter holidays

Good Friday:type=easter offset=-2 Easter Monday:type=easter offset=1

Christian Christmas holidays

Christmas Eve:type=static month=12 day=24 Christmas Day:type=static month=12 day=25

Note that in the UK if these days fall on a weekend then the next

weekday is usually a holiday.

England and Wales

[uk-eng] Daylight Savings Time:type=sun month=3 offset=5 May Day:type=mon month=5 offset=1 Spring Bank Holiday:type=mon month=5 offset=5 Summer Bank Holiday:type=mon month=5 offset=5 Standard Time:type=sun month=10 offset=5

Scotland

New Year

New Year:type=static month=1 day=1 2nd of January:type=static month=1 day=2

Note that in the UK if these days fall on a weekend then the next

weekday is usually a holiday.

Christian Easter holidays

Good Friday:type=easter offset=-2

Christian Christmas holidays

Christmas Eve:type=static month=12 day=24 Christmas Day:type=static month=12 day=25

Note that in the UK if these days fall on a weekend then the next

weekday is usually a holiday.

Scotland

[uk-sco] Daylight Savings Time:type=sun month=3 offset=5 May Day:type=mon month=5 offset=1 Spring Bank Holiday:type=mon month=5 offset=5 Summer Bank Holiday:type=mon month=5 offset=1 Standard Time:type=sun month=10 offset=5 St Andrews Day:type=static month=11 day=30

NB - Gotcha time, it's on the Monday following the 30th of the 30th

is at the weekend

Given the flexibility of some of these it would be useful to be able to say "next normal working day if a weekend", but cope with things like Christmas/Boxing Day where both may be at the weekend.

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Hi Hendrik,

some corrections for the description in the holidays conf-file. Now you have 6 (not 3) types and for the 6th type (sun) there is no explanation.

For Germany I miss national holiday:type=static month=10 day=3 Boxing Day:type=static month=12 day=26

Regards, Michael

-----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2008 15:00 An: hobbit at hswn.dk Betreff: [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  31/12

I 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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On fim, 2008-01-03 at 15:00 +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

To make this easy, I need some information about the holidays in each country.

Hi Henrik, thanks for the hobbit monitor.

Here are descriptions of the icelandic holidays:

Iceland see: http://www.almanak.hi.is/rim.html

[is] Whit Monday:type=easter offset=50 Maundy Thursday:type=easter offset=-3 Constitution Day:type=static month=6 day=17 Boxing Day:type=static month=12 day=26 #First Day of Summer: (The first thursday after the 18. april).

in 2007: 19 of april, in 2008: 24. of april.

First Day of Summer:type=+thu month=4 day=19 #Merchants Holiday: (First monday of august). Merchants Holiday:type=mon month=8 offset=0

I put in some comments so that you might correct the data if I had perhaps misunderstood the coding.

I may have most of the faroese holidays as well if you like.

-- Kindest Regards, Anna Jonna Ármannsdóttir, %& A: Because people read from top to bottom. Unix System Aministration, Computing Services, %& Q: Why is top posting bad? University of Iceland.

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  31/12

I 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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