Comments on: New release of Date_Holidays PEAR package.

By: Daniel O'Connor

Daniel O'Connor — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:55:51 +0000

Ken/Adam,
Remind me to crack open the dusty Australian public holidays stuff I have floating around at work and get it out into this package.

By: Ken Guest

Ken Guest — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:10:13 +0000

Hi Luke,
The best approach for solving the issue where one territory/region celebrates, using the Australian example here, Labour Day on a different date than the others is to have regional drivers based on and inheriting from a country specific driver.
This is how we manage calculating religious holidays: we have a driver named Date_Holidays_Driver_Christian which the country drivers inherit from so the inheriting classes don’t have to recalculate the dates of ‘movable feasts’.

If this were a scenario where some regions celebrate more holidays than others there is a filter pattern that could be used to filter out, or allow in, regional holidays. This is how we manage the holidays in various German states where some, Berlin for example, don’t recognise as many as the others.

hope this helps

By: Luke Welling

Luke Welling — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:30:07 +0000

Some countries (such as Australia) are less convenient and have different holiday dates in different states.

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Ken Guest’s online diary » Blog Archive » More for Date_Holidays — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:25:00 +0000

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By: Ken Guest

Ken Guest — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:36:50 +0000

What country do you need it for Adam? It really isn’t that difficult to develop a driver – don’t hesitate to ask for help if you feel you need to

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:26:55 +0000

Oh how nice! Though it doesn’t support it for the country I would need it for !