Re: [HackerspaceSG] Public dataset for SG holidays?

[Carl Coryell-Martin]

going how far back?

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Erik <erik...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone know of a public dataset that contains Singapore holidays?

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[Jan Detlefsen]

I managed to isolate the Thailand public holiday feed from Google Cal before, but i can't remember how it was done. It's there though.

[Flo.]

Try from Google Calendar:

https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/en_gb.singapore%23holiday%40group.v.calendar.google.com/public/basic

[Ruiwen Chua]

Here's the one I use in Google Calendar

Calendar ID: singap...@holiday.calendar.google.com
iCal: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/singapore__en%40holiday.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

And one for the school holidays too

Calendar ID: jj6j8nfgkecqm...@group.calendar.google.com
iCal: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/jj6j8nfgkecqmfr1fttcvdac7k%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics


Something you might be able to use?

[Patrick Haller]

On 2012-06-25 05:45, Erik wrote:
> I just need present and future dates.
> (I've mis-used the word dataset maybe)

http://www.mom.gov.sg/Documents/holidays/public_holidays.sg.2012.ics

[Ciaran Lyons]

There are some moveable dates that are only set close to the actual date - Ramadan and some others. So you'll have to factor that in.

Ciaran

[Michael Cheng]

Some of Singapore's public holidays are not fixed as they are affected by different time scales (eg. Lunar calendar of the Chinese Lunar Calendar, Muslim holidays are also determined by Lunar calendar). The public holidays (as recognized by the Ministry of Manpower) are confirmed near the end of the year.

So the MOM ics file is probably the most authoritative. But you can't forecast them beyond 1 year in advance.

As a rule, there are 2 public holidays given to each major racial group: Hari Raya Haji & Puasa for Malays, Chinese New Year (2 days) for the Chinese, Deepavali and Vesak Day for the Indians and Easter & Christmas for the Eurasian. Further to these are the state holidays like New Years Day, Labour Day and National Day. The state holidays usually have fixed dates. Christmas always falls on 25 December. The rest… its a moving target.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards,

Michael Cheng CM
Mobile: +65 9185 5166

LinkedIn: http://sg.linkedin.com/in/miccheng

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Erik <erik...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks!

On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:36:55 AM UTC+8, Ruiwen Chua wrote:

Here's the one I use in Google Calendar

Calendar ID: singapore__en@holiday.calendar.google.com

iCal: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/singapore__en%40holiday.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

And one for the school holidays too

Calendar ID: jj6j8nfgkecqmfr1fttcvdac7k@group.calendar.google.com

iCal: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/jj6j8nfgkecqmfr1fttcvdac7k%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics


Something you might be able to use?

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Flo. <floria...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try from Google Calendar:
> https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/en_gb.singapore%23holiday%40group.v.calendar.google.com/public/basic
>
>
> On Monday, June 25, 2012 4:02:42 PM UTC+8, Erik wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know of a public dataset that contains Singapore holidays?
>
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