Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] improved version of holidays for .NL

[Dave Hall]

There is also this - http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.easter-date.php 

But it does not cope with Orthodox Easter.

Dave Hall <address@hidden> wrote:

> address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > One fixed date national holiday was missing, being the 5th of 
> May, 
> > known as 
> > liberation day.
> > 
> > Is there a way to calculate easter, and other more or less 
> > christian holidays?
> > the ones that are dates of importance are: good friday, easter, 
> > easter 
> > monday, Ascension day, whit sunday, whit monday.
> > These somehow get calculated with respect to Easter, with Whit 
> > Sunday being 
> > the 7th sunday after easter, and ascension day being the 
> thursday 
> > before 
> > the 6th sunday after easter, (good friday being the friday 
> before 
> > easter).I have not been able to quickly descern how easter is 
> > calculated.
> 
> It is calculated based on lunar cycles, which is difficult for 
> phpgw to
> calculate.  For other countries we have manually entered the dates for
> the next 5-12 yrs.
> 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Huub
> > -- start file:
> > 
> > 
> > NL nieuwjaarsdag 1 1 0 0 0 NL koninginnedag 30 4 0 0 0 NL 
> > bevrijdingsdag 5 
> > 5 0 0 0 NL 1e kerstdag 25 12 1 0 0 NL 2e kerstdag 26 12 0 0 0 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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