Re: UK Bank Holidays 2

"Ryan A" <ryan@coinpass.com> wrote in message news:000301c40339$bf61bf90$f081aa51@l2zcaxu7emppqh... > > Ryan: Well, that's > > not a very nice way to treat someone on the list, > > even if it was the second time > > you'd seen the question in the same day > > or even if it was a question that is obviously in the manual. Some > > people are just at different proficiencies in their learning process and > > don't > > yet know to go to the manual for certain questions. If we treated > > every newbie like this, then we > > wouldn't have people coding in PHP! > > Hi _uncle_ Ben, > I have nothing against newbies or newbie questions even though I may read > questions like which is the > best shopping cart, best PHP IDE etc 3+ times in a month, or why > register_globals are better off or why > "this code does not work" when its just a semicolon missing...although I > must say the most frequient seems > to be then ones where people write to the list without even trying to do a > single word search on google. > I too was a newbie and compared to some > guys on the list I still most certainly am. But when you write a question > that does not get answered the first > time round...then retry a bit later is just downright irritating. If the guy > wrote some code a bit later on to do > his "holiday thing" and hit a wall...I and a crapload of people here will be > most willing to lend a hand if he needed > help, theres just gotto be a limit. If the guy thought that the first > message didnt get through then its cool...but by > the 2 in the subject.....COME ON for petes sake. > Anyway, you have your view on this so.. > > Cheers, > -Ryan Hi All, Thank you for your replies. To be perfectly honest I wanted to make my post look like a repost because the first reply I got seemed rather flippant to me: [snip] Can PHP recognise dates that are UK Bank Holidays? [/snip] Yes http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I didn't want to start a posting war - ironic now I know - so I just started a new thread. Ryan, I may be getting out of my league here, but if the makers of PHP didn't care about us here in the UK then why was this function created: gmmktime(); I know reposting like this is wrong but I was just trying to make a point. Sorry guys