From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2007-01-03T11:38:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Detecting holidays

Okay, I got the code done.  I just need to create lists of holidays
now. I can do the U.S. holidays (if I need any help algorithm-wise,
I'll let you guys know...), but I have no clue about UK or anyone
else's holidays.  Anyone from another locality care to englighten me?

I called it "special_days" because Im hoping it can be used for
purposes other than just holidays (birthdays?  patch_days?  The
possibilities are approaching limitless!).

I'm working on getting a gem together right now...

--Jeremy

On 1/2/07, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Well, it took seven years, but I've finally been annoyed enough by
> reports failing on national holidays to say something.  Report writers
> know the routine:
>
> Them: Why did the report fail for Jan. 1st?
> Me: National holiday. There was no data to grab.  Ignore the failure.
> Them: Oh, right.
>
> Repeat again for Memorial Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
>
> 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
>
> And no, it's not a simple matter of using something more flexible than
> cron because some reports pull data from X days back or ahead, not on
> the date they're run.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> - Dan
>
> [1] http://search.cpan.org/~stbey/Date-Calc-5.4/Calendar.pod
> [2]
> http://search.cpan.org/~stbey/Date-Calc-5.4/lib/Date/Calendar/Profiles.pod
> [3]
> http://search.cpan.org/~jonasbn/Date-Holidays-0.08/lib/Date/Holidays.pm
>
>
>


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