>>Holidaze again.
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>>We have similar Holiday issues. First we had an app with a Holiday table. A function in our library, IsHoliday, determines if a date is a holiday or not. There is a logical recurring field for Xmas, New Years, 4th of July, etc. These only have to be entered once. Floating holidays have to entered manually. I suppose there is a rule for turkey day and other "first monday after..." but I didnt go that route.
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>>The next step was to share the Holiday table with other apps. It makes no sense to have multiple apps each with their own (and possibly different) holiday tables.
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>>Since our network is unstable, I'd like an app to copy the Holiday table out to NT shares, using a table to keep a list of UNC's.
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>>Better yet is to move to table upstream, and store it on the Sybase server. This requires a bunch of red tape, so it's still a VFP table on the network.
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>>Possible better still, would be to keep one on the internet that the whole org (or country) could use. Talk about a single point of entry.
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>>When the news of Outlook Calendar putting thanksgiving on wrong day went around, we considered getting our holiday list from outlook. It seemed safer to keep our own.
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>Hi Hans,
> Nadya cross-posted (or the sysops moved it) this question in one of the other categories. Unfortunately it just left the listing. In there where a couple of sites that told how to figure moving holidays. Easter, for example, is a holiday based on the moon's cycle and a church commitee. It's a movable feast dependant on a lunar position, dependent on a moveable date, (beginning of Lent), relying on a council who doesn't always pay attention to the former. Put that into your calendar calculator and smoke it!
> Anyway, I couldn't find the reply that Nadya got. It's probably about two weeks old. Perhaps Nadya will respond the this or you could post to her.
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>Pete

The site was posted by Michelle Cox http://home.wnm.net/~debi/dates.htm This site contains all Holidays with the rules for them. Since I needed only 8 basic US holidays (not Easter), I just used those definitions and easily calculated all dates for year 2002.

Here is the original thread Forum: Visual FoxPro Category: Visual FoxPro in general Title: Re: Program to determine holidays Thread #430637 Message #583612

Houston Brennan created a program for Easter calculation, which was sent to me by Michelle and Houston also (I haven't studied it closely, though). I also know, that there is FAQ here to calculate Easter's date (hard to spell author's name correctly).