[hobbit] Need info: National holidays - Australia

[Everett, Vernon]

Hi Henrik

As the saying goes, "There's always one, isn't there?" 

In Australia the holidays are all different, depending on what state you
are in, and differ from year to year, depending on expedience.
For instance all states celebrate the queen's birthday (Queen Elizabeth
of Great Britain, that is), but on different days.
For instance, Northern Territory it was  on the 11 Jun last year, 9 Jun
this year, and 8 Jun next year.
In Western Australia, the same holiday was celebrated on 1 Oct last
year, 29 Sep this year, and 28 Sep next year.
It gets very ugly, but I think it's done to give us long weekends during
the best weather periods.

The official holiday listings for the 7 states can be found here

Northern Territory
http://www.ocpe.nt.gov.au/legislation/holidays

Western Australia
http://www.docep.wa.gov.au/lr/LabourRelations/Content/Wages%20and%20Cond
itions/Public%20Holidays/Public_Holidays.html

New South Wales
http://www.industrialrelations.nsw.gov.au/holidays/index.html

Queensland
http://www.wageline.qld.gov.au/holidayslist/index.html

South Australia
http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/show_page.jsp?id=2483

Tasmania
http://www.wst.tas.gov.au/employment_info/public_holidays

Victoria
http://www.vic.gov.au/VictoriaOnline?action=content&id=4383&image_id=371
&pageTitle=Victorian+Public+Holiday+Dates&track=Government+Entry+Point+f
or+Victorians&nav=suppnav

Good luck trying to figure out that mess.

Cheers
   Vernon



-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2008 11:00 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Need info: National holidays

One of the new things in Hobbit 4.3 is that it can handle alerts
happening on holidays. These will also show up on the "info" 
column page.

To make this easy, I need some information about the holidays in each
country. 

I already have code to handle the Christian holidays (Easter, Whit
Monday, Christmas) - e.g. these are the holidays I have listed in my
"common" section for 2008:

    New Year        01/01
    Good Friday     21/03
    Easter Monday   24/03
    Ascension Day   01/05
    Whit Monday     12/05
    Christmas Eve   24/12
    Christmas Day   25/12
    New Year's Eve  31/12

I also have specific entries for the US, Germany and Denmark - see
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit-cgi/viewconf.sh?holidays for the current
configuration.

So if you're from France, Italy, Australia, Japan or some other country
and you would like to have Hobbit pre-loaded with your national
holidays, send me a list of which days are holidays. If you can do it in
the form of the configuration file it would be brilliant, but if not
then just describe to me what days should be included.

(Please post them to the list - and DONT send it if it has already been
posted by someone else, thanks!)

Regards,
Henrik


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