Need help with holiday calendar periods
Simon Paquet
Hi guys,
I just added another column to the holiday calendar page
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/holidays.html on our website to
indicate the period that the respective holiday calendar covers.
As you can see from that page, a lot of calendars have "period unknown"
on the right.
I would appreciate any help that I could get from you in determining
which period is covered in those calendars. That would also enable me to
decie whether there are any outdated calendars on that page, which should
be removed.
You can help me by subscribing to one or more calendars of countries,
where you understand the language and know the major holidays. See if you
can find out which period the holiday calendar covers. Irregular holidays
(e.g. easter), which don't fall on the same day every year are a good
indicator for that.
Please respond here in this thread with any information that you have
gained.
Thanks
Simon
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Thunderbird/Calendar Localisation (L10n) Coordinator
Thunderbird l10n blog: http://thunderbird-l10n.blogspot.com
Calendar website maintainer: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar
Calendar developer blog: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar
Tony Mechelynck
> [Followup-To mozilla-support.calendar]
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I just added another column to the holiday calendar page
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/holidays.html on our website to
> indicate the period that the respective holiday calendar covers.
>
> As you can see from that page, a lot of calendars have "period unknown"
> on the right.
>
> I would appreciate any help that I could get from you in determining
> which period is covered in those calendars. That would also enable me to
> decie whether there are any outdated calendars on that page, which should
> be removed.
>
> You can help me by subscribing to one or more calendars of countries,
> where you understand the language and know the major holidays. See if you
> can find out which period the holiday calendar covers. Irregular holidays
> (e.g. easter), which don't fall on the same day every year are a good
> indicator for that.
>
> Please respond here in this thread with any information that you have
> gained.
>
> Thanks
> Simon
At first glance, Belgian Holidays (French) looks OK at least until New
Year's Day 2015 included (with Easter Monday shown and on a Monday
etc.). I didn't try to find actually when the covering ends after that;
nor did I check past dates. I've added it to my Sunbird as a read-only
remote calendar. (It defines "public holidays", which are defined by law
once and for all, not "school holidays" which are defined each year, and
I'm not sure by whom -- decree of the French / Dutch / German community
depending on which schools they're for? -- but I suppose that's OK.)
I notice that this calendar (like most others) has a "thanks to" line.
Hopefully the person in question can answer in more detail.
Best regards,
Tony.
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Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.
Decathlon
holidays for 2003 until 2011, but I've found some problems for Easter
and Easter Monday (Pasqua and Lunedì dell'Angelo in Italian language)
that can't be showed neither with Lightning 0.9 nor with 1.0pre for
the following years:
Easter 2004, 2005, 2006;
Easter Monday 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
I've seen with unifinder that Easter and Easter Monday don't have end
date although they are all-day events.
Lightning doesn't complaint when you import the calendar, but,
according to iCalendar standard, is it a well formatted calendar? How
can I verify that? Should Lightning show those events with a such
format or should it generate an error?
If it get confirmed, I think the calendar should be fixed, although
errors occur in the past. If it needs, I have a right calendar for the
years 2000-2020, please tell me how can I do to upload a new calendar,
if I have to open a new bug or what else.
Decathlon
> >I've seen with unifinder that Easter and Easter Monday don't have end
> >date although they are all-day events.
> >Lightning doesn't complaint when you import the calendar, but,
> >according to iCalendar standard, is it a well formatted calendar? How
> >can I verify that?
>
> Usehttp://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/to determine whether an .ics
> file conforms to the iCalendar standard.
>
Thanks Simon,
the calendar is a regular iCaledar, could it be a Lightning's problem?
Just to understand, the following is the ics "code" of Ester (Pasqua)
2004:
BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20061126T091659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20061126T091700Z
DTSTAMP:20061126T091700Z
UID:919148894
SUMMARY:Pasqua
CLASS:PRIVATE
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20040411
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-0011231
END:VEVENT
The end date is a strange number and the unifinder reports a right
start date but no end date; double click on the item in the unifinder
shows a Edit Event dialog with an *all-day* event but with a start
date on 4/11/2204 and end date on 12/31/2008 (?).
Daniel Boelzle
Reading [1] I don't think that DATE-value is correct.
regards,
Daniel
[1]
<http://tools.ietf.org/rfcmarkup?doc=draft-ietf-calsify-rfc2445bis-07#section-3.3.4>
Decathlon
>
> > BEGIN:VEVENT
> > CREATED:20061126T091659Z
> > LAST-MODIFIED:20061126T091700Z
> > DTSTAMP:20061126T091700Z
> > UID:919148894
> > SUMMARY:Pasqua
> > CLASS:PRIVATE
> > DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20040411
> > DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-0011231
> > END:VEVENT
>
>
>
> regards,
> Daniel
>
> [1]
Ok, thanks Daniel.
I'm going to open a new bug to upload a new calendar as Simon
suggested.
But why is this calendar well formatted if a date isn't correct and,
more important, why Lightning shows an event (well or badly formatted)
in the unifinder and it doesn't in the calendar view?
I haven't found a bug about that, but maybe it needs a better
search. :-).
Regards.
Cédric Corazza
> [Followup-To mozilla-support.calendar]
>
> Please respond here in this thread with any information that you have
> gained.
Hi,
For the French holiday calendar, the period is from 2007 to 2015
according to Easter holidays.
Regards
Cédric
Simon Paquet
> I just added another column to the holiday calendar page
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/holidays.html on our
> website to indicate the period that the respective holiday
> calendar covers.
>
> As you can see from that page, a lot of calendars have
> "period unknown" on the right.
>
> I would appreciate any help that I could get from you in
> determining which period is covered in those calendars. That
> would also enable me to decide whether there are any outdated
> calendars on that page, which should be removed.
Thanks for the help guys.
With your help and with my own efforts I was able to update the
holiday periods of various countries (Czech Republic, Germany,
Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Sweden,
Switzerland).
I also removed various outdated holiday calendar (Algeria,
Argentina, Cambodia, Colombia, Liberia, Malaysia, Pakistan,
Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, Uruguay),
because they were outdated and reopened the respective bug to
ask for an update.
But there still remains a large amount of holiday calendars (most
notably the USA), where I have no info on the period they cover.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cya
Simon
--
Thunderbird/Calendar Localization (L10n) Coordinator
Michiel van Leeuwen
> I also removed various outdated holiday calendar (Algeria,
> Argentina, Cambodia, Colombia, Liberia, Malaysia, Pakistan,
> Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, Uruguay),
> because they were outdated and reopened the respective bug to
> ask for an update.
Did you just remove the link on the website, or also the ics files? In
the latter case, do you really want all the subscribers of that file to
get an error?
Michiel