Holiday Calculator 2.0 calculates when various holidays
occur in any given year BC or AD. Designed to be
cannibalised to include the calculation routines in your own
programs.


It currently calculates the following holidays:

New Years Day
Martin Luther King Day
Inauguration Day
Robbie Burns Day
Groundhog Day
Valentines Day
Ash Wednesday
Lincoln's Birthday
Presidents Day
Washington's Birthday
Alberta Family Day
St Patrick's day
Vernal Equinox
Palm Sunday
Good Friday
April Fools Day
Easter Sunday
Easter Monday
Earth Day
Cinco de Mayo
Mothers Day
Armed Forces Day
Victoria Day
Memorial Day
Fathers Day
Summer Solstice
St Jean-Baptiste Day
Canada Day
Independence Day
Utah Pioneer Day
Canada Civic Day
Canadian Labour Day
American Labor Day
Autumnal Equinox
Canadian Thanksgiving
Columbus Day
Halloween
General Election Day
Remembrance Day
Veterans Day
American Thanksgiving
Winter Solstice
Christmas Eve
Christmas
Boxing Day
New Years Eve


If a holiday was not celebrated in a given year, it will not
show.

Includes complete Java source code to calculate when the
holiday occurs in a given year, when it was first
celebrated, when first proclaimed, the rule for how it is
calculated in words and an authority to go to for more
information.

Also calculates the nearest weekday to any given holiday,
when you actually get the day off. This is what I refer to
by the term "shifted". Boxing day has special shift
handling.

Shareware that may be freely distributed and used for
any purpose except military.

In the source are methods that can also be used to calculate
how many business days were between given dates. It is quite
easy to specify which days you want considered as holidays
using methods like addHoliday where you specify the date or
the name of the Holiday, addAmericanFederalHolidays and
addWeekDaysAsHolidays.

The main holiday still missing is Chinese New Year.

Copyright 1999-2004 Canadian Mind Products

$10 US shareware.

Buy online at http://mindprod.com/products.html#HOLIDAYS or send
cheques only (sorry, no credit cards) payable to Canadian
Mind Products to:

HOLIDAYS REGISTRATIONS
Roedy Green
Canadian Mind Products
#327 - 964 Heywood Avenue
Victoria, BC V8V 2Y5
(250) 361-9093

May be freely distributed and used for any purpose but
military. For more details on the restriction, see
http://mindprod.com/roedy.html#NONMILITARY

The distributed version is absolutely identical to the
registered version, and includes Java source. You may use
the code freely in your own programs.  You don't need to
register multiple copies.


Version 1.8 makes it easier to extend the various classes for
your own purposes, e.g. to print a calendar of German holidays.

version 1.9 improves the JavaDoc. Version 2.0 adds Earth Day.

There is an additiontal package of German holidays designed to work
in the HolidayCalculator framework available
from http://www.applicate.de/freesoftware/holiday/

One typical use embedding in your own program:

public class DemoGermanHolidayUtils {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // 1. Enable calculation from 1995 to 2010
        IsHoliday  holiday  = new IsHoliday(1995, 2010);
        // 2. Mark weekends as holidays
        holiday.addWeekendsAsHolidays();
        // 3. Add German federal holidays
        GermanHolidayUtils.addGermanFederalHolidays(holiday);

        System.out.print("Is May 1st 2002 a holiday: ");
        System.out.println(holiday.isHoliday(
        new BigDate(2002, 5, 1)));
    }
}