Re: I wanna check US Holiday!!!

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, murali dhar wrote:

> I found that file YPROF will nt be generated
> on a US holiday.   I will have to make a change to check for a holiday.
> For our system Night Time date is changed on next date 8:00AM
> I have to use this night time date to check for holiday depending on
> when i check...
> How can i modify my program to check for holiday sothat i can capture
> this message and send a message to users.

We've developed an API called isholiday() that determines if a given date
is a holiday.  A description of it is at:

http://www.eaerich.com/docs/era-api.html#isholiday

The neat thing about it is that you specify what holidays you want to
observe, not what dates those holidays fall on.  In addition, you can
specify what day to observe the holiday when that holiday occurs on the
weekend (like if the holiday falls on a Saturday, observe it on Friday).

Basically, isholiday() takes a given date, checks what holidays you have
specified you want to observe, then applies various rules of when holidays
occur to determine if the date is a holiday.

James Rich

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