Re: Re: Date_Holidays

Not sure about i18n, but here in the US just because you don't get the day off doesn't mean it's not a holiday. For example: Holoween here in the US is a "holiday" but I don't get it off work. --Joe > Maybe some more general approach / name possible? Why just holidays? > In Germany there are a few remarkable days for which nowadays you > won't get a free day (namely holiday) from your boss. > > Something like: Date_SpecialDates? Just a thought ... > > Stefan > > On 18 Oct 2003 at 16:00, Greg Beaver wrote: > >> Hi Stephan, >> >> This would be very useful. I have some working code that calculates a >> few holidays like American Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, and also >> several other random holidays (Labor Day, etc.). It also calculates >> major Jewish holidays like Rosh Hashanah, I'd be happy to make my old >> and rather scrappy code available to extract some algorithms. The >> code is used as a backed for calendar.chiaraquartet.net >> >> It would be great to see the code PEARified and unit tested. >> >> Regards, >> Greg >> >> Stephan Schmidt wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I will have to implement a calendar in PHP that knows when certain >> > holidays (like easter) are. I thought about implementing the >> > algorithm in a class called Date_Holidays, so it can be used in >> > PEAR. But as different countries have different holidays (in the US, >> > labour day is in September, in Germany it's in May) I thought about >> > a factory method like: >> > >> > $holidays = Date_Holidays::getHolidays('Germany'); >> > >> > This will return an object Date_Holidays_German, so at a later point >> > Date_Holdays_France, etc. could be implemented. >> > >> > The object could then supply some methods to check whether a date is >> > a holiday, list all holidays in a certain year or return one holiday >> > for one year... >> > >> > Any thoughts or comments about this? I'll probably start working on >> > this next monday. >> > >> > Stephan >> > --- >> > Stephan Schmidt >> > schst@php-tools.net >> > http://www.php-tools.net >> >> -- >> PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net> http://www.joestump.net "Label makers are proof God wants Sys Admins to be happy."