[kronolith] Holidays

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Brandon Knitter <knitterb@blandsite.org>:

> Oh...maybe this would help:
> 
>      http://www.gnu.org/software/gcal/gcal.html
>     
> http://www.sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/gcal-3.00/gcal.html
> 
> I just compiled this and I'm trying to figure out how to get a list of
> dates and
> titles from gcal, maybe that would work as an integration point?  At
> least it's
> a start.  The data files that come with gcal are fairly easy to use, and
> it
> seems to have a very wide range of holidays and such from around the
> world.

This seems to be a nice piece of software. But I want to raise another 
issue here: performance.

I don't think, it's a good idea to calculate the holidays on every page 
call. That's probably the reason why Outlook solves the holiday problem how 
it does: You just import a list of holidays for the next few years. And 
that's how I got them into Kronolith. I added my preferred holiday list to 
Outlook, exported all events of the category "holiday" to csv and imported 
them into Kronolith.

I guess we can provide such lists for Kronolith too and implement them 
either by special keywords ("kronolith.holidays.germany", 
"kronolith.holidays.christian") or by the soon coming shared calendars 
[Chuck? :-)]. This way the user can easily add and remove sets of holidays.

Jan.

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