[ALUG] [OT?] Bank Holidays

[Mark Rogers]

Dave Crisp wrote:
> Easter IS complicated, but the following Perl function gives a correct
> date for any year in the Gregorian calendar. The associated holidays are
> then the previous Friday and the following Monday.
>   

Thanks for that - easy to convert to PHP if I go that route.

> The other holidays are easy to compute: the first and last Mondays in May,
> the last Monday in August, and Dec 25/26 and Jan 1 (or the next
> non-holiday weekday if these fall at the weekend)
>   

I hadn't realised it was that "simple". This might be a good way to do 
it - thanks.

(Ted Harding) wrote:
> How far ahead are you thinking of planning for? There are only
> eight per year for England, so a 3-year look-ahead would take up
> a couple of dozen lines in a file which you could look up with a
> little 'awk' or similar script

A small look-up table like this did cross my mind - as you say the table 
will be short enough and the information is readily available to 
populate the table.

This gives me two fairly distinct but equally good ways forward, maybe I 
need to find a spare coin to toss!

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