Maybe I'm missing something, but the one thing I want from DateTime is the 
ability to determine whether a day has elapsed since a file modify date, 
but not just a calendar day... at least a business day (i.e. Saturdays and 
Sundays don't count), but even better if a calendar could skip past 
government and/or business holidays too, so elapsed days are only the 
meaningful ones, weekends and business holidays would not increment a 
business days elapsed counter.

For example, if you have downloaded daily closing stock prices at 8PM on 
Friday the 29th of January, there's no point in downloading them again 
until after the close of trading Monday, February 1st, but if you 
originally downloaded them at 2PM on Friday the 29th of January, you will 
get one more result by downloading them again at 8PM that same day.  It 
gets even more interesting when you throw time zone into the mix.  The 
markets are still actively trading at 6:30 PM Pacific Time.  Need DateTime 
functions that will aid in making those decisions.  Is this being 
considered for Julia and if not, should it be?

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