how to write function which gives you all holidays that fall on week ends between two dates

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how to write function which gives you all holidays that fall on week ends between two dates

Posted 29-Jan-11 0:32am

tanuja karkar

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Sandeep Mewara 29-Jan-11 6:40am

You have to write your own logic for it. No built in function as holidays would differ from place to place.

Sunasara Imdadhusen 29-Jan-11 6:57am

Sandeep! You are right.

OriginalGriff 29-Jan-11 7:10am

I don't know if you are aware of it, but there is now a "reply" feature for comments: move your mouse over the comment and it appears on the RHS. That way Sandeep would get a notification, rather than tanuja.

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Espen Harlinn · Answer 1 · 2011-01-29T04:32:00

Solution 2

If you have Outlook installed on your machine, you can obtain the holidays list, which is shipped with its installation.

If you've installed Microsoft Office 2007, check the following path:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\1033\Outlook.hol

This file contains known holidays for many countries in the following format:
...
[United States] 168
Christmas Day,2006/12/25
Christmas Day,2007/12/25
Christmas Day,2008/12/25
Christmas Day,2009/12/25
Christmas Day,2010/12/25
Christmas Day,2011/12/25
Christmas Day,2012/12/25
Christmas Eve,2006/12/24
...

It's just a thought :)

Regards
Espen Harlinn

Posted 29-Jan-11 4:32am

Espen Harlinn

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Estys 29-Jan-11 10:40am

and if he hasn't : http://www.e-webstyle.com/techinfo/index.php/ms-outlook/outlook-2003-holidays-for-2006-2012-outlookhol-download/

Espen Harlinn 29-Jan-11 10:41am

Nice link, thanks :)

JF2015 29-Jan-11 11:59am

Good idea. 5

Espen Harlinn 29-Jan-11 12:42pm

Thanks JF2015!

#realJSOP 30-Jan-11 7:50am

I wouldn't rely on outlook for *anything*...

Espen Harlinn 30-Jan-11 8:56am

I think most people will be happy if he can get it to work on the level of outlook, and then there is Estys link :)

#realJSOP · Answer 2 · 2011-01-29T02:09:00

Build a list of holidays:

0) Define the holidays indicates their ordinal date (day of the year).

1) Write a method that applies the ordinal date to the current year, and see if the day it lands on is either Saturday or Sunday. Store this boolean value (bool m_isWeekend) in the list item.

Compare the dates:

0) Compare the holiday dates with the specified date range, and check the m_isWeekend variable to see if it's a weekend holiday