[mh] Regional Holiday definitions

[hplato <hp...@gm...>]

Further to an earlier email I sent out, I'm interested in pulling  
together a more robust and expandable holiday calculation system. To  
this end, I've been playing around with generating an ical file that  
can be read by calendar programs (apple's ical, thunderbird,  
outlook), as well as MH via the updated ical-syncing organizer.pl code.

for consistency, I'm using two two-letter codes to identify the  
regions. So for Alberta, Canada the file is /data/holidays.ca_ab. If  
anyone is interested in assisting with other regions, either upload  
your own holidays.XX_XX to svn or reply to the list and I'll add them  
to the repository. Below are the Alberta, Canada definitions:


# Canadian Holidays - Alberta
# Date Spec                      Holiday Name
"January 1"                     "New Year's Day"
"Third Monday in February"      "Family Day"
"Friday before Easter"          "Good Friday"
"Monday after Easter"           "Easter Monday"
"Monday before May 24"          "Victoria Day"
"July 1"                        "Canada Day"
"First Monday in August"        "August Long Weekend"
"First Monday in September"     "Labor Day"
"Second Monday in October"      "Thanksgiving"
"November 11"                   "Remembrance Day"
"December 25"                   "Christmas Day"
"December 26"                   "Boxing Day"