hey y'all from other continents! when's your bank holidays?

So, I've been given this calendar project. (The one that should allow me to give SARS -- as a March pin-up -- to anyone who wants it.)

I have to research the 2005 dates on the Internet. Ha ha.

I have to find redundant verification for any given official holiday date, for whichever countries deemed important enough to make it on the calendar. Every day is a holiday somewhere, so one has to be picky. Many official sites (embassies, etc.) haven't uploaded the 2005 dates yet. To complicate things, it seems the expedia.com (same as travel-guide.com, and a lot of other mirror sites, which can't count as different sources) holiday listings are not always accurate. Which means I have get that many more genuinely other sources in order to get a decent majority to agree on dates.

For example, Japan's Respect for the Aged Day was September 15th once, but apparently it's more likely the 3rd monday of the month.

July's Marine Day has multiple dates, and multiple interpretations, marine as in sea or ocean, marine as in specialized navy or military, and it may or may not fall on the third monday of that month, rather than have a fixed date. The most convincing argument involves some ancient emperor successfully returning from the sea (with military, perhaps?)

Israel Liberation day, due to Orthodox snarkiness, is the 5th of the Hebrew month (which took some effort to figure out in itself) unless it overlaps Shabbat (both Friday and Saturday). Sukkot happens in three different months, depending on whose calendar you read.

And May Day. (May Day! May Day!) Thanks to the cold war, The US may be one of the few countries on the planet that doesn't celebrate this as a labor holiday. (Excuse me, Labour Holiday.) However, in 2005 it falls on a Sunday, so... does it get observed on Monday instead? (The UK calendars, thankfully, all pretty much state it as "May 2 bank holiday" or "first Monday in May") The Japanese bank holidays around new year's don't get moved when they fall on a Sunday, so you just never know.

I don't understand the previous holiday selection. A religious holiday celebrated in some, not all, German states. "Reformation Day" does sound like it has more to do with the Berlin Wall than Martin Luther, I guess. But, half of the Islamic bank holidays weren't there.

Anzac day, or is it ANZAC day?

hey y'all from other continents! when's your bank holidays?

So, I've been given this calendar project. (The one that should allow me to give SARS -- as a March pin-up -- to anyone who wants it.)

I have to research the 2005 dates on the Internet. Ha ha.

I have to find redundant verification for any given official holiday date, for whichever countries deemed important enough to make it on the calendar. Every day is a holiday somewhere, so one has to be picky. Many official sites (embassies, etc.) haven't uploaded the 2005 dates yet. To complicate things, it seems the expedia.com (same as travel-guide.com, and a lot of other mirror sites, which can't count as different sources) holiday listings are not always accurate. Which means I have get that many more genuinely other sources in order to get a decent majority to agree on dates.

For example, Japan's Respect for the Aged Day was September 15th once, but apparently it's more likely the 3rd monday of the month.

July's Marine Day has multiple dates, and multiple interpretations, marine as in sea or ocean, marine as in specialized navy or military, and it may or may not fall on the third monday of that month, rather than have a fixed date. The most convincing argument involves some ancient emperor successfully returning from the sea (with military, perhaps?)

Israel Liberation day, due to Orthodox snarkiness, is the 5th of the Hebrew month (which took some effort to figure out in itself) unless it overlaps Shabbat (both Friday and Saturday). Sukkot happens in three different months, depending on whose calendar you read.

And May Day. (May Day! May Day!) Thanks to the cold war, The US may be one of the few countries on the planet that doesn't celebrate this as a labor holiday. (Excuse me, Labour Holiday.) However, in 2005 it falls on a Sunday, so... does it get observed on Monday instead? (The UK calendars, thankfully, all pretty much state it as "May 2 bank holiday" or "first Monday in May") The Japanese bank holidays around new year's don't get moved when they fall on a Sunday, so you just never know.

I don't understand the previous holiday selection. A religious holiday celebrated in some, not all, German states. "Reformation Day" does sound like it has more to do with the Berlin Wall than Martin Luther, I guess. But, half of the Islamic bank holidays weren't there.

Anzac day, or is it ANZAC day?

[m4w] overextended into despair

Some part of me must be clinically incapable of overextending myself. Or I stop caring about a lot of maintenance stuff, and household chores.

I seem to do a lot of things, according to external perceptions. I suppose a lot of routine things are being neglected, like reading and cooking.

Anyone want to get a dual membership at the Science Museum this year? (current offer is a $10 discount, plus extra tix to the planetarium, omnimax and basic guest passes.)

so, in the unrealistic expectations, I like the friday 5 meme this week:

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[m4w] overextended into despair

Some part of me must be clinically incapable of overextending myself. Or I stop caring about a lot of maintenance stuff, and household chores.

I seem to do a lot of things, according to external perceptions. I suppose a lot of routine things are being neglected, like reading and cooking.

Anyone want to get a dual membership at the Science Museum this year? (current offer is a $10 discount, plus extra tix to the planetarium, omnimax and basic guest passes.)

so, in the unrealistic expectations, I like the friday 5 meme this week:

( Read more... )