Happy Hogmanay/New Year! Scotland & New Zealand have an additional New Year's celebrations hangover recovery public holiday.
In Scotland, Hogmanay is THE most significant winter festival, with internationally popular street parties of 400,000 people dancing. (Xmas was banned in Scotland for over 400 years, until recently.) Index: calendar.holiday =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.holiday,v retrieving revision 1.32 diff -u -p -r1.32 calendar.holiday --- calendar.holiday 12 Oct 2015 06:33:21 -0000 1.32 +++ calendar.holiday 4 Jan 2016 15:44:21 -0000 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ 01/01 Universal Fraternity Day in Mozambique 01/02 Ancestry Day in Haiti 01/02 St. Berchtold's Day in Switzerland -01/03 New Year's Holiday in Scotland +01/02 New Year's Holiday in Scotland and New Zealand 01/03 Revolution Day in Upper Volta 01/04 Independence Day in Burma 01/04 Martyrs Day in Zaire @@ -580,5 +580,6 @@ 12/29 His Majesty, the King's Birthday in Nepal 12/30 Anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar in Madagascar 12/31 Proclamation of the Republic in Congo +12/31 Hogmanay - 3 day year transition festival in Scotland #endif /* !_calendar_holiday_ */ -- http://www.Scotland.org/features/hogmanay-top-facts/ http://www.RampantScotland.com/know/blknow12.htm http://www.EdinburghsHogmanay.com/ http://www.EdinburghFestivalCity.com/festivals/edinburghs-hogmanay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogmanay
