I have received several answers about this, which I summarized on the GNOME Wiki:
http://live.gnome.org/HolidayInformation Take a look in case you are interested. roozbeh On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 22:16 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > I am trying to write some code to automatically create a list of > official/public Iranian holidays, and I was wondering if that could be > extended for other countries/locales, something that may become useful > in GNOME or other free desktops. > > What I have came to, is that holidays are usually either a fixed date in > a calendar (Shawwal 1 in every Islamic year is a holiday in many Muslim > countries, Eid ul-Fitr), or use simple combinations of weekdays and > calendars (fourth Thursday in November is a holiday in the United > States, Thanksgiving). There are also weekly holidays (every Sunday in > most countries of the world). > > I also know that holidays may vary in different parts of a certain > country/territory. Different states in the US have different holidays, > for example. > > But I am mostly ignorant of the whole picture. So, I am asking about > feedback. > > I would appreciate it if you could please tell me about the pattern > holidays follow in your country. Please email me privately. I will try > to round up the information and post it to the pages for the giulia > (a.k.a. gnome locale) project. > > roozbeh > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
