On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 03:46:53PM +0000, Craig Skinner wrote: > 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.) >
i diasgree with this. it's true some of us in scotland get the 2nd off, but i'm not sure it's helpful to describe the 2nd as a new year's festival. really we have hogmany and new year's day. depending on your job, you'll get some combination of these off. i worked 31/1 and had the second off. lots of people have two weeks... traditionally the 2nd was described as a bank holiday. now banks are open on this day. some businesses shut. let's just leave it that for people on this calendar, 31st is hogmany and the 1st is new year's day. days off are no longer inviolate/ jmc ps xmas banned in scotland till recently: how old are you exactly, craig ;) > > 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
