From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2007-01-03T02:57:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Detecting holidays

On 1/2/07, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a package out there that deals with national holidays (for any
> nation)?  The only thing I came across what date2, but that only seems
> to handle Japanese national holidays.  I guess I'm looking for
> something like Perl's Date::Calc [1] module or, more specifically, it's
> Date::Calendar::Profiles [2] module.  Or something like Perl's
> Date::Holidays::XXX [3] approach (I'm not sure which is preferred these
> days).
>
> Ideally, I'd like to be able to do something like:
>
> if Date.today.is_national_holiday?
>    exit # Don't run report on this day
> end

You may be able to build something that checks againt an iCalendar
file of holidays.

* webcal://ical.mac.com/ical/US32Holidays.ics
* http://www.infinitenil.com/developers.html
* http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/09/03/rubycocoa.html