From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get the UK holidays displaying in the agenda?
Date: 9 Aug 2014 21:00:26 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnlud2v9.1kn.varro@anukis.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6839.1407534120.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Robert Thorpe wrote:
> Memnon Anon <memnon+usenet@freeshell.org> writes:
> ...
>> (setq holiday-general-holidays
>> '((holiday-fixed 1 1 "New Year's Day")
>> (holiday-fixed 3 17 "St. Patrick's Day")
>> (holiday-float 5 1 1 "May Day Bank Holiday")
>> (holiday-fixed 7 12 "Battle of the Boyne")
>> (holiday-float 8 1 -1 "May Day Bank Holiday")
>> (holiday-fixed 12 26 "Boxing Day")))
>
> This looks like a Northern Ireland list. St. Patrick's day and Battle
> of the Boyne day aren't holidays in the rest of the UK. (Battle of the
> Boyne day isn't a holiday in the sense of "something you look forward to".)
That depends on one's point of view, I think. Anyway, the default
list of holidays contain things like "Groundhog Day" and "April Fools'
Day" that aren't by any stretch of the imagination real holidays.
--
Will
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2014-08-08 22:13 ` How to get the UK holidays displaying in the agenda? Emanuel Berg
2014-08-09 21:00 ` Will Parsons [this message]
[not found] <mailman.6282.1406728120.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-08 12:39 ` Hans BKK
2014-08-08 13:40 ` Sharon Kimble
2014-07-30 13:48 Sharon Kimble
2014-08-08 13:06 ` Memnon Anon
2014-08-08 13:38 ` Sharon Kimble
2014-08-08 13:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-08-08 14:31 ` Memnon Anon
2014-08-08 21:41 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-08-08 19:44 ` Charles Philip Chan
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