Fw: Can you help verify belgian holidays for Date::Calc?

[Stephane Rondal]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steffen Beyer" <sb at engelschall.com>
To: "Stephane Rondal" <rondal at usa.net>
Cc: "Stefaan Colson" <stefaan.colson at sitel.com>; <liege-pm-list at pm.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: Can you help verify belgian holidays for Date::Calc?


> Hello Stephane Rondal, in a previous mail you wrote:
>
> > I think Date::Calc is able to distinguish between such different kinds
of
> > holidays
> > (schools closed but not companies, ...), and it's really up to the user
of
> > Date::Calc
> > to choose the behavior he wants.
>
> Yes and no: The module distinguishes between two types: holidays (and half
> holidays, some companies give a half day off) on one side, and purely
> commemorative days (just names for certain dates) on the other side.
>
> School holidays are not supported, but users are free to add them
> if they want/need (as full holidays, or just as names, as reminders
> in their calendar).
>
> > For regional holidays, these are a bit tricky, aren't they?
>
> They are supported for other countries by providing separate
> regional profiles. One could make the BE-DE, BE-FR and BE-NL
> profiles different from one another, each one including the
> respective local special days.
>
> > I mean, what is closed on these days exactly? Schools, for sure,
> > but also political organizations depending on the French/Flemmish
> > community, or am I wrong? But this is still a normal working
> > day for private companies. How do you deal with this Steffen?
>
> Users will have to use my profiles as a base on which to build
> their own, they are free to include whatever they want, like
> family member's birthdays, for example!
>
> > Stephane
>
> Yours,
> --
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