[kronolith] Holidays

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Jon Parise <jon@horde.org>:

> On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:56:05AM -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Can't you just import a file, which would have the reccuring events
> (holidays)
> > in it?  That is, not a file "for the next few years" but a file that
> works
> > forever by recurring events (unless holiday dates change, of course).
>  
> I think Jan's point is that adding additional recurring events would
> add processing overhead to each page request (whether or not the
> holiday will appear in the current calendar view).

And we'd have the problem that we can't reproduce all holidays with our 
available recurrence types.

But gcal seems to be quite sufficient, you can say for which period and 
which country you want to have the holidays and it returns it.

Jan.

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