From: Nick Sieger <nicksieger@...>
Date: 2007-01-03T04:04:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Detecting holidays

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On 1/2/07, Mat Schaffer <schapht@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> For those sort of holidays you could use the Chronic gem to parse a
> textual date:
>
> irb(main):010:0> Chronic.parse('4th thursday in november')
> => Thu Nov 22 11:00:00 -0500 2007
>
> Still kind of a shame there isn't just a 'holidays' gem.


Emacs has a really robust holidays library that's not too lengthy, perhaps a
good topic for a Ruby quiz or someone's spare time to just port it to Ruby?

/Nick

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