On 2016-01-22 Fri 13:50 PM |, Peter Kane wrote:
> Hi Craig
>
> I don't want to file this as a bug but I think New Plymouth Anniversary Day
> would be better described as Taranaki Anniversay Day. I've never seen it
> described as anything else on a New Zealand calendar (especially while living
> there for a good many years).
>
You're right Peter.
The wikipedia page has an alternative name, & I wrongly assumed it was
part of the trendy place rename thing, such as Mount Egmont to invalid
"Mount Taranaki".
New Plymouth was were I was born & messed about while my father worked at
building the offshore gas fueled power station there. I later worked at
the Edinburgh Rolls Royce factory which built the 385kv heavy
transformers for NZ - weird. A bit of wishfull self indulgence....
Nevertheless, I couldn't find any web hits for "New Plymouth Anniversary Day".
Also, I had a double entry for "South Canterbury Anniversary Day", so
here's both updated:
Index: calendars/calendar.nz
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.nz,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1 calendar.nz
--- calendars/calendar.nz 20 Jan 2016 19:12:28 -0000 1.1
+++ calendars/calendar.nz 22 Jan 2016 12:04:47 -0000
@@ -30,14 +30,14 @@
01/29* Auckland and Northland Anniversary Days
02/01* Nelson Anniversary Day
03/23* Otago Anniversary Day
-03/MonSecond New Plymouth Anniversary Day
+03/MonSecond Taranaki Anniversary Day
Easter+2 Southland Anniversary Day
09/MonFourth South Canterbury Anniversary Day
09/FriThird Hawke's Bay Anniversary Day
11/01* Marlborough Anniversary Day
11/30* Chatham Islands Anniversary Day
12/01* Westland Anniversary Day
-12/16* South Canterbury Anniversary Day
+12/16* Canterbury Anniversary Day
/* Seasonal days */
03/20* Autumnal Equinox
> As a side note, I think New Plymouth would be an excellent place for a
> late-summer hackathon, given the pleasant beaches and mountainous terrain in
> close proximity.
>
I reckon. Famous for its surfing & snowy mountain on the same day. Film
makers love it there, especially of the Japanese ilk due to Mt Egmont
being a Mt Fuji lookalike, with high air & light quality.
Keep in mind the NZ song "Four Seasons In One Day" by Crowded House.
> Diff below.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
>
> Index: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.nz
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.nz,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -u -p -u -r1.1 calendar.nz
> --- src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.nz 20 Jan 2016 19:12:28 -0000
> 1.1
> +++ src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.nz 22 Jan 2016 00:36:33 -0000
> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
> 01/29* Auckland and Northland Anniversary Days
> 02/01* Nelson Anniversary Day
> 03/23* Otago Anniversary Day
> -03/MonSecond New Plymouth Anniversary Day
> +03/MonSecond Taranaki Anniversary Day
> Easter+2 Southland Anniversary Day
> 09/MonFourth South Canterbury Anniversary Day
> 09/FriThird Hawke's Bay Anniversary Day
>
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> -----
>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:12:57 +0000
> From: Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk>
> To: tech@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: [calendar] Addition of a New Zealand holiday file
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30)
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:49:08PM +0000, Craig Skinner wrote:
> > G'day,
> >
> > Similar to the recent British calendar file, here's a New Zealand file.
> >
>
> committed, thanks.
> jmc
>
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