[hobbit] Need info: National holidays

[Dominique Frise]

Hi Henrik,

Like Australia, Switzerland is also a mess regarding this topic.
Each canton has authority for fixing these holidays.
The only one missing common that I can see is:

# Switzerland
[ch]
National Day:type=static month=8 day=1



Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne


Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> 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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