[DQSD-Users] Real-time holidays (WAS: Revised 2004 - holidays.sg.xml)

2004-01-04 Thread Kim Gräsman
Shawn, > > My only concern was that it may be sluggish driving all > > that with JS, but I guess it's not really a problem. > > Sice it only needs to show one month at a time, I can't imagine it'd > be very heavy on overhead, even if it processed the entire year in > order to generate the dates.

RE: [DQSD-Users] Revised 2004 - holidays.sg.xml

2004-01-04 Thread Shawn K. Hall
Hi Kim, > My only concern was that it may be sluggish driving all > that with JS, but I guess it's not really a problem. Sice it only needs to show one month at a time, I can't imagine it'd be very heavy on overhead, even if it processed the entire year in order to generate the dates. > Then th

RE: [DQSD-Users] Revised 2004 - holidays.sg.xml

2004-01-04 Thread Kim Gräsman
Hi Shawn, > Wouldn't it be better to provide a ruleset style system that DQSD > could then parse to generate the actual dates on it's own? You know, I thought about the same thing... > I think a solution that parsed > *rules* out of the events file for the displayed month would be a > better so

RE: [DQSD-Users] Revised 2004 - holidays.sg.xml

2004-01-04 Thread Shawn K. Hall
Hi Kim, > Anyway, there seem to be a couple of rules sufficient to > express an entire holiday season: > - Fixed dates > - Dates relative to Easter (Easter sunday is > algorithmically available for any year) > - Nth weekday in month > - Weekday in between two dates (i.e. Saturday in between > 31/1

RE: [DQSD-Users] Re-updated holidays.gb.xml

2004-01-04 Thread Kim Gräsman
James, Thanks for the update. It's in. Kim > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > James Robertson > Sent: den 4 januari 2004 18:27 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DQSD-Users] Re-updated holidays.gb.xml > > Kim - > > Apologies -

[DQSD-Users] Re-updated holidays.gb.xml

2004-01-04 Thread James Robertson
Kim - Apologies - a couple of dates were missing from 2005 on the previous version. This should do the trick... James Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk

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2004-01-04 Thread Monty Scroggins
Ah I dont think I fully understood the original statement. I meant to say that some of the US holidays arent a defined date, and therefore a single years' holidays can't be merely duplicated with a changed year... They are predictable however.. Monty - Original Message - From: "Monty

Re: [DQSD-Users] Revised 2004 - holidays.sg.xml

2004-01-04 Thread Monty Scroggins
> And just a thought for everybody. Aren't singaporian, canadian, us holidays predictable several years in advance ? That would make things leaner. Example : after some research, I could build a holidays.fr.xml with virtually no limit of year (though I stopped at 2020). Easier. At least for the U

Re: [DQSD-Users] RE: Revised 2004 - holidays.sg.xml

2004-01-04 Thread Sidney Chong
>> >> Thanks, I didn't realize that holidays and events were the same things... >> > > I *think* the "event type" parameter was intended to be used for some kind > of event partitioning (birthdays versus public holidays etc) but I dont > think it was ever implemented... > Monty Yeah, you are righ

RE: [DQSD-Users] Revised 2004 - holidays.sg.xml

2004-01-04 Thread Kim Gräsman
Hi MLL, > And just a thought for everybody. Aren't singaporian, > canadian, us holidays predictable several years in advance ? > That would make things leaner. Example : after some > research, I could build a holidays.fr.xml with virtually no > limit of year (though I stopped at 2020). Easier

RE: [DQSD-Users] Revised 2004 - holidays.sg.xml

2004-01-04 Thread MLL
Hi Sidney, Seems like you submitted the former file. And just a thought for everybody. Aren't singaporian, canadian, us holidays predictable several years in advance ? That would make things leaner. Example : after some research, I could build a holidays.fr.xml with virtually no limit of year