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From: reingold@emr.cs.iit.edu (Edward M. Reingold)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: ross@rosslaird.info
Subject: Re: Exception dates in diary?
Date: 21 Jan 2008 11:00:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ve5nazaw.fsf@emr.cs.iit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6326.1200774827.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

>>>>> "RAL" == Ross A Laird <ross@rosslaird.info> writes:

    RAL> Yes, I have seen this and other more complex options based on holiday
    RAL> dates. But I'm in Canada, and the holidays are sometimes different,
    RAL> so I need some way of specifying exact dates for exception. Also my
    RAL> calendar shows me some holidays I don't even recognize...  Oh well, I
    RAL> suppose I can just do it manually.  Thanks for the input.

You can easily redefine the holidays to reflect your locale--no need to see
lots of meaningless US holidays (the default) just redefine the variable
general-holidays.  See the docs for details.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-21 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-18 23:36 Exception dates in diary? Ross A. Laird
2008-01-19 12:51 ` Leo
2008-01-19 17:38 ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-19 20:33   ` Ross A. Laird
     [not found]   ` <mailman.6326.1200774827.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-21 17:00     ` Edward M. Reingold [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.6299.1200699610.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-20  0:17 ` Edward M. Reingold

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