From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2007-01-03T12:33:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Detecting holidays

No! I insist that you top post!*

Oh, and for some actual content:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus#Algorithms
Good luck with that.

Martin Fowler had an article/series of articles on building a DSL for 
recurring dates. You might want to investigate.

Devin

Mat Schaffer wrote:
> 
> On Jan 2, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Jeremy McAnally wrote:
> 
>> Well, the way I'm working it out is like AR's dynamic finders.  It
>> will have a few groups of dates hardcoded (like national holidays and
>> such), but then you can Devin give it new groups in the form hashes of
>> arrays of dates with named "work_holidays" or "surprise_offdays" and
>> then call the method like is_a_work_holiday? or is_a_surprise_offday?.
>>  I'm still working on it...I'll post when I've got it done.
>>
>> --Jeremy
> 
> 
> Sounds neat.  Just please bottom post when replying :)
> -Mat
> 
> 

* I'm joking, mostly. I use Thunderbird, ATM, so top posts are much more 
convenient for me. I know, I know, majority rules... just... trim, if 
you bottom post.

Devin