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