[Gnumed-devel] Re: Happy Canada Day

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > AFAIK neither Germany nor Denmark nor Switzerland have such things (I might 
> > be wrong)
> East Germany had a Tag der Republik.  Nowadays we probably
> place most significance on Tag der Wiedervereinigung (Reunion
> Day). But please don't ask for dates :-))  Somewhere in
> October...
Just ask gcal:

    LC_ALL="" LANG="" gcal --cc-holidays=DE_SN  --holiday-list=long

Eternal holiday list:                      The year 2004 is A leap year

New Year's Day (DE_SN)                   + Thu, Jan   1st 2004 = -183 days
St Valentine's Day (DE_SN)               - Sat, Feb  14th 2004 = -139 days
Women's Shrove Day (DE_SN)               - Thu, Feb  19th 2004 = -134 days
Ash Monday (DE_SN)                       - Mon, Feb  23rd 2004 = -130 days
Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras (DE_SN)        - Tue, Feb  24th 2004 = -129 days
Ash Wednesday (DE_SN)                    - Wed, Feb  25th 2004 = -128 days
All Fool's Day (DE_SN)                   - Thu, Apr   1st 2004 =  -92 days
Good Friday (DE_SN)                      + Fri, Apr   9th 2004 =  -84 days
Easter Sunday (DE_SN)                    + Sun, Apr  11th 2004 =  -82 days
Easter Monday (DE_SN)                    + Mon, Apr  12th 2004 =  -81 days
Valborg's Eve (DE_SN)                    - Fri, Apr  30th 2004 =  -63 days
Labour Day (DE_SN)                       + Sat, May   1st 2004 =  -62 days
Mother's Day (DE_SN)                     - Sun, May   9th 2004 =  -54 days
Christ's Ascension Day (DE_SN)           + Thu, May  20th 2004 =  -43 days
Father's Day (DE_SN)                     - Thu, May  20th 2004 =  -43 days
Whitsunday/Pentecost (DE_SN)             + Sun, May  30th 2004 =  -33 days
Whit Monday (DE_SN)                      + Mon, May  31st 2004 =  -32 days
Feast of Corpus Christi (DE_SN)          * Thu, Jun  10th 2004 =  -22 days
Seven Sleepers Day (DE_SN)               - Sun, Jun  27th 2004 =   -5 days
St Peter and St Paul (DE_SN)             - Tue, Jun  29th 2004 =   -3 days
German Unity Day (DE_SN)                 + Sun, Oct   3rd 2004 =  +93 days    
***
Thanksgiving Day (DE_SN)                 - Sun, Oct   3rd 2004 =  +93 days
Reformation Day (DE_SN)                  * Sun, Oct  31st 2004 = +121 days
National Mourning Day (DE_SN)            - Sun, Nov  14th 2004 = +135 days
Day of Prayer and Repentance (DE_SN)     + Wed, Nov  17th 2004 = +138 days
Sunday of the Dead (DE_SN)               - Sun, Nov  21st 2004 = +142 days
St Nicholas' Eve (DE_SN)                 - Sun, Dec   5th 2004 = +156 days
Christmas Eve (DE_SN)                    * Fri, Dec  24th 2004 = +175 days
Christmas Day (DE_SN)                    + Sat, Dec  25th 2004 = +176 days
Boxing Day (DE_SN)                       + Sun, Dec  26th 2004 = +177 days
Sylvester/New Year's Eve (DE_SN)         * Fri, Dec  31st 2004 = +182 days


I marked the day in question with *** (the Estern Germany "Tag der Republik"
was on 7. October - Karsten, you should know this! ;-) ).  Just use "gcal -hh"
to find out which country code to use for other countries.

Kind regards

         Andreas.

PS: A nice excercise is to pipe the output of gcal for different countries
    through "wc -l" and find out which people are celebrating most. ;-)