>>I did a search for this and the answer was "no", but the question was asked a year and a half ago, so I'm trying again. :)
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>>Anyway, has anyone written a program that will take in a date and return a holiday if it is one? I only need US holidays.
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>>And, yes, I know there are various algorithms for Easter and such out there. I'll write my own if necessary, but it seems as though someone would have done this already.
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>>Thanks,
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>Michelle,
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>I wouldn't try to calculate holidays. Yes, the movable ones such as Labor Day and Thanksgiving can be calculated. However, not all businesses observe all holidays. Here at Shaw, we get Good Friday off, but not Columbus day, for example. Further, some companys give one day off for Thanksgiving and some two. A better solution, IMO, is to use a table to store the dates then modify it as required.

If these Holidays have some predefined rules (like first Monday on September, for example), they can be calculated. I'm not talking about Easter now (BTW, remeber, I sent you a program written my husband to calculate Pesah date?)
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Thanks.