[Kde-pim] Updated gb holiday file

[Ian Neal]

  John Layt wrote:
> On Thursday 14 January 2010 00:23:11 John Layt wrote:
>> On Wednesday 13 January 2010 19:15:58 Ian Neal wrote:
>>>    Christophe Giboudeaux wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the patch, I'll commit it soon. I just have a small issue
>>>> with this
>>>>
>>>> date :
>>>>> +red "Christmas Day Bank Holiday" weekend on december 25 shift to
>>>>> monday if saturday || sunday
>>>>> +red "Boxing Day Bank Holiday" weekend on december 26 shift to tuesday
>>>>> if sunday || monday
>>>>> +red "Boxing Day Bank Holiday" weekend on december 26 shift to monday
>>>>> if saturday
>>>> which is displayed twice. The updated file will be part of KDE 4.4
>>>>
>>>> Christophe.
>>> Unfortunately the only way to get the Boxing Day Bank Holiday to show up
>>> correctly is to have those two entries. The current syntax for the
>>> holiday file cannot seem to cope in one line with (unless you know
>>> otherwise):
>>> if Boxing Day Bank Holiday falls on Saturday move it to Monday else if
>>> it falls on Sunday or Monday move it to Tuesday.
>>>
>>> Hope that answers your issue.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Ian
>> I don't think the current SHIFT syntax will work here, and I can't think of
>> another form that would work 100% either.  I'll try come up with a change
>> to the grammar for 4.5 to cater for more complex shift rules, or an
>> exclude keyword, or a de-dupe process (or all of them).
>
> Actually, now I've almost completely re-written the parser and understand it
> better, there is a way to do it using the existing Relative Date syntax rather
> than the Shift syntax.  Have a look at the file for Chile (cl) which does a
> lot of this.  It's a little hard to understand but it will work until I sort
> out a better Shift syntax:
>
> "Boxing Day Bank Holiday" red on (([12/26] == [saturday after ([12/25])] ) ?
> [monday after ([12/25])] : (([12/26] == [sunday after ([12/25])] || [12/26] ==
> [monday after ([12/25])]) ? [tuesday after ([12/25])]:[12/26]))
>
> Remember that all needs to go on 1 line.  It doesn't remove the need to have 2
> separate entries for "Boxing Day" and "Boxing Day Bank Holiday", but it's
> better than 3 entries or not having the day off marked at all :-)
>
> John.
>
> P.S. Should we also include the new one-off 2012 holidays now while we
> remember?
Yes, probably. Would have to remove the normal end of May holiday too 
for that year. Does the relative date syntax let you specify year as 
well as?

Ian

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