Re: Holidays in different countries

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher Fynn
Denis Jacquerye wrote: I really like the idea but it seems like a huge task, at least if you really want to have all of the countries and regions' holidays. Gathering all this information would require a lot of dedicated people, with proper knowledge of each country and region. It will be hard

Re: Holidays in different countries

2005-10-13 Thread Denis Jacquerye
You could maybe include the International days observed by the UN? http://www.dakar.unesco.org/journees_un/journees_en.shtml They are not public holidays at all, but they could be useful. I don't think http://www.world-calendar.com/ is acurate either but it mentions papers from http://emr.cs.iit.e

Re: Holidays in different countries

2005-10-13 Thread Denis Jacquerye
I really like the idea but it seems like a huge task, at least if you really want to have all of the countries and regions' holidays. Gathering all this information would require a lot of dedicated people, with proper knowledge of each country and region. It will be hard to keep up with every year'

Re: Holidays in different countries

2005-10-11 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
First of all, thanks a lot. On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 17:30 +0200, Denis Jacquerye wrote: > You could maybe include the International days observed by the UN? > http://www.dakar.unesco.org/journees_un/journees_en.shtml > They are not public holidays at all, but they could be useful. I'm not intereste

Re: Holidays in different countries

2005-10-11 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
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 li

Re: Holidays in different countries

2005-10-10 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 21:44 +0200, Denis Jacquerye wrote: > I really like the idea but it seems like a huge task, at least if you > really want to have all of the countries and regions' holidays. Well, we can start small. We will have basic syntax for the holidays in place, then use the help of th