Re: New Calendars

I think in the case of France it may be preferable to support a workday calendar - definitely makes your
software more efficient to check for workdays than for holidays...Zzzzzh

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On May 11, 2008, at 9:10 PM, "Lecuyer, Fabrice" <Fabrice.Lecuyer <at> cba.com.au> wrote:

Hi Mike,

I just had a look at the french calendar you implemented, and I don't think it is correct. 
There is no such thing as Good Friday or Boxing day in France (They actually exists, but only in
Alsace-Lorraine). Furthermore, when a holiday falls on a week end, it doesn't get moved to a Monday or a Tuesday.
Finally it misses a few holidays, such as Armistice day, All saints day (which you have for the belgium
calendar), or Bastille day. Here is a complete list:

Public Holidays

1 January    New Year's Day (Jour de l'an)
1 May    Labor Day (Fête du premier mai)
8 May    WWII Victory Day (Fête de la Victoire 1945; Fête du huitième mai)
14 July    Bastille Day (Fête nationale)
15 August    Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Assomption)
1 November    All Saints Day (La Toussaint)
11 November    Armistice Day (Jour d'armistice)
25 December    Christmas Day (Noël)
26 December    2nd Day of Christmas (in Alsace and Lorraine only)

Moveable Feasts
Religion: Christian (Western)
Feast    2007    2008    2009    2010     2011    2012
Good Friday*       6 April    21 March     10 April    2 April    22 April    6 April
Easter (Pâques)       8 April    23 March    12 April    4 April    24 April     8 April
Easter Monday       9 April    24 March    13 April    5 April    25 April     9 April
Ascension (l'Ascencion)       17 May    1 May    21 May    13 May    2 June    17 May
Pentecost (la Pentecôte)       27 May     11 May    31 May    23 May    12 June    27 May
Whit Monday       28 May    12 May    1 June    24 May    13 June    28 May

*In Alsace and Lorraine only.

In years when Ascension Day concurs with Victory Day, we mark only the former, thus ignoring the latter.

Metal workers have the holiday of St. Eloi, July 24 (Festival of St. Eloi - French Basque).

Note that when a holiday happens to fall on a Tuesday or Thursday, many French workers may take the Monday or,
respectively, Friday, off as well. This is not official and does not apply to institutions such as banks or
government, but is sufficiently commonplace to cause difficulties doing business on occasion...

Vive La France,
Fabrice

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Hi,

I've created 4 additional calendars currently not included in version 0.9.
The formats were taken from existing calendars.

Could these be added to the calendar library?

Thanks,

Mike Craig

http://www.nabble.com/file/p17155910/greece.cpp greece.cpp
http://www.nabble.com/file/p17155910/france.cpp france.cpp
http://www.nabble.com/file/p17155910/belgium.cpp belgium.cpp
http://www.nabble.com/file/p17155910/malaysia.cpp malaysia.cpp
http://www.nabble.com/file/p17155910/malaysia.hpp malaysia.hpp
http://www.nabble.com/file/p17155910/greece.hpp greece.hpp
http://www.nabble.com/file/p17155910/belgium.hpp belgium.hpp
http://www.nabble.com/file/p17155910/france.hpp france.hpp
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