After years of wondering how the various UK holiday
dates get calculated, 30 seconds on Google looking for
"Easter" and "algorithm" made it all clear! Just in
case people are interested, there's a good javascript
calculator here (click on "Return" links for the main
page):
http://tech.irt.org/artic
Well, if that's going to be done then the UK holidays
can be a bit difficult. In particular, holidays
falling on a weekend are celebrated on the Monday
following. If two consecutive holidays fall on a
Saturday and Sunday, they are observed on the Monday
and Tuesday following. Presumably that would
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.
