From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Will Parsons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get the UK holidays displaying in the agenda? Date: 9 Aug 2014 21:00:26 GMT Message-ID: References: Reply-To: gyliamos@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407618332 13964 80.91.229.3 (9 Aug 2014 21:05:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 21:05:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 09 23:05:26 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XGDpK-0004KU-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2014 23:05:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XGDpJ-0002ku-DC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2014 17:05:21 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Trace: individual.net G+HRWLmqtnWUEZuRTWFHXQlVzYm2zMeaAajjf1+sz9PqdImUMQ Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y55V3RHGLxVEwed81sJHh9RYWic= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (FreeBSD) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206875 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99151 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe wrote: > Memnon Anon 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