On 13/09/2010 18:06, Chris Withers wrote:
Hi All,
I'm wondering what libraries people would use to answer the following
questions relating to business days:
- on a naive level; "what's give me the last business day" (ie:
skipping weekends)
- on a less-naive level; same question but taking into account public
holidays
- on a horrific level; same question, but taking into account business
days of a particular market (NYSE, LSE, etc)
Hi Chris,
Having written one of these for UK holidays, it was easy once I
obtained a routine to calculate the date of Easter :)
We decided that editing a list of holidays each year was "too hard" and
so they would always be calculated so..
I had a "isWorkday()" routine that returned false for everything below,
and true otherwise:
Every Sat and Sun
Jan 1st, and the first Monday in Jan
The day after Easter day
The first Monday in May (Month = May and day <= 7 and dow = Monday)
The last Monday in May (day >= 25 ....
The last Monday in August (day >= 25 ....
Every day from 23rd Dec to the end of the year. (unique to company).
I believe that officially, Christmas holiday is the first week-day on or
after 25th Dec.
Boxing Day/St Stephens holiday is the week-day after the Christmas
holiday date above.
Hope this helps.
Ian
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