Re: calendar: holidays for Germany

[Ulrich Windl]

On 31 Jan 2002, at 20:38, Richard Stallman wrote:

> The default value of general-holidays is for the US.
> It makes no sense to add a German holiday to that list.

Ok, I realized the _text_ was German. However Emacs has chinese 
holidays as well as jewish. It's jsut that your business men shouldn't 
expect to find many open shops in Germany on that day. ;-)

Example for non-US holidays, or do you consider "Chinese New Year" 
being an US hiliday already?:
Tuesday, 12 February 2002:  Chinese New Year (Ren-Wu);  Shrove Tuesday
> 
> What would make sense is to internationalize the feature:
> to have lists of holidays for various countries, and provide
> a convenient way to select one.  Would someone like to write that?

Regards,
Ulrich