Holidays

I need to populate a Pg database with holidays (US, Federal, Christian,
Islamic, and Jewish). I didn't find anything on CPAN (but you have to know
what to search for). The Islamic and Jewish ones are a little problematic
because they can shift for year to year. Do you know of a resource I can
look at?

Robert

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Robert wrote:

> I need to populate a Pg database with holidays (US, Federal,
> Christian, Islamic, and Jewish). I didn't find anything on CPAN (but
> you have to know what to search for). The Islamic and Jewish ones are
> a little problematic because they can shift for year to year. Do you
> know of a resource I can look at?

How far out do you need to go? A few years? If so, there's little point
in calculating the dates -- just download a list of dates and pump that
into your database by whatever means you like.

An excellent source for this kind of data is ICalShare. This section on
their site should be what you're looking for:

<http://icalshare.com/index.php?topic=holidays>

Note that by just downloading the data, this ceases to be a Perl
problem, unless you want to use Perl to parse the ICS / VCal data...



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Chris Devers

On 4/20/05, Robert <catcher@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> I need to populate a Pg database with holidays (US, Federal, Christian,
> Islamic, and Jewish). I didn't find anything on CPAN (but you have to kno=
w
> what to search for). The Islamic and Jewish ones are a little problematic
> because they can shift for year to year. Do you know of a resource I can
> look at?
>=20

I know of:
[url]http://www.inoff.com/hebcal/[/url]
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Date-Holidays/

HTH,
--=20
Offer Kaye

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:11:00 -0400, Robert wrote:
> I need to populate a Pg database with holidays (US, Federal, Christian,
> Islamic, and Jewish). I didn't find anything on CPAN (but you have to know
> what to search for). The Islamic and Jewish ones are a little problematic
> because they can shift for year to year. Do you know of a resource I can
> look at?

Once you find the rules, I suggest using the framework of Date::Calendar
and Date::Calendar::Profiles to do your date calculations.

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Peter Scott
http://www.perlmedic.com/
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