Re: Re: Date_Holidays

Pierre-Alain Joye <paj@pearfr.org> escribió > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:55:47 +0200 > "Dave Mertens" <dmertens@zyprexia.com> wrote: > > > > In most countries it also depends on the business you're working in. > > Offices and Industries are closed on Christmas, but employees of > > restaurants, bars, etc have to work. So a day of for one person, > > doesn't mean everybody has a day off. I think the "standard" definition of a holiday is a banking holiday. Of course that is based in the countries I know of, so I'm not sure if it's a general rule. > I think this is related to official holidays. That means national days, > religion days (i.e. in CH it's a real mess, some dpt have holidays that > others dpts do not have, differs if the dpt is christian or protestant) > and so on. I don't think having local holidays will be feasible. > This is more a big database with special cases that anything > else ;-) There are some holidays that would have to be calculated. Most catholic countries I know of, have an easter holiday ("good friday"?) that falls somewhere between march 22 and april 25, depending on the phase of the moon. Xavier http://www.xavier-noguer.com/