On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 09:02:17PM +0000, Craig Skinner wrote:
> Hi Jason,
> 

hi!

> On 2016-01-28 Thu 00:34 AM |, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:06:41PM +0000, Craig Skinner wrote:
> > > 
> > > NOOP;- relocate USA state/national holidays from calendar.holiday
> > > into existing sparse calendar.usholiday file.
> > > 
> > 
> > i have to say i am less keen on this. i think calendar.holiday is pretty
> > much a us-centric file anyway, for fairly obvious reasons. i'm not sure
> > that splitting this file makes sense. we'll end up with a holiday file
> > with few entries, and which belong nowhere.
> > 
> 
> 
> Errr, not really;- only ~10% of calendar.holiday is affected (53 lines),
> which about doubles the size of the skeleton calendar.usholiday file.
> 

yes, but it'd be the start of a break up that i'm not convinced will
work. or one that makes any sense.

> I think most OpenBSD hackers are on the European continent,
> or at least outside of the U.S.A. anyway.
> 

i don;t really think that's relevant (whether true or not).

> My thought was to provide a place for more regional U.S. holidays to be
> added, to their file, without impacting the international scene.
> 
> Following this diff, I want to group many items by state, to make it
> easier for their regional additions. Such as the New York Marathon,
> Albuquerque hot air balloon festival & wotnot!
> 

ok, so submit a separate file for additions. some more local things
probably do make sense in a separate file.

> The Germans are already 4 times ahead of the combined States:
> $ wc -l de_DE.UTF-8/* | fgrep total
>      414 total
> 
> The Americans could totally top that.
> 
> I know lots of Brits love the States, so it would be easy for them to
> then include a fully loaded calendar.usholiday file.
> 

i don;t think that's relevant either. we can;t second guess who will be
interested in what.

jmc

> Cool.
> -- 
> Hanson's Treatment of Time:
>         There are never enough hours in a day,
>       but always too many days before Saturday.
> 

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