On 04 Jan 2016, Jason McIntyre wrote: > traditionally the 2nd was described as a bank holiday. now banks are > open on this day. some businesses shut.
It still is a bank holiday, see https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays#scotland Neither my Dundee employer nor my bank (Clydesdale) were open for it. > 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/ The calendar does list others though, like St Andrew's Day. -- Mark
