Hello Jhiggins,
Q++ Studio
http://www.qppstudio.net/worldholidays.htm
"Q++ Studio provides a worldwide listing of bank holidays, legal
holidays and public holidays : a detailed and regularly revised list
of bank holidays, public holidays and national holidays, for all the
recognized countries and autonomous territories of the world (over 220
countries and a dozen territories), including all the complex and hard
to get holidays (Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Buddhist, ...). Probably the
best source of holidays information on the web today."
http://www.qppstudio.net/freeware.htm
The free listings are not available in a format for software
development; however this company specializes in consulting and
software development for diary and calendar publishers, editors,
printers and manufacturers.
http://www.qppstudio.net/footnotes/why_is_it_free_.htm
If you are a diary or calendar publisher, write to: diarypublishers@qppstudio.net
to obtain any information on products and data published on this site,
in particular future years' listings of bank and public holidays
worldwide. To receive the benefits reserved for diary publishers, your
email should contain the URL of your online catalog of diaries and
calendars, or a PDF version of your printed catalog of diaries and
calendars.
?Additional information, such as 2006 and 2007 holidays dates, is
available, upon request, for diary or calendar publishers (your email
should contain the URL of your online catalog of diaries and
calendars, or a PDF version of your printed catalog of diaries and
calendars).?
http://www.qppstudio.net/coord.htm
The following listings are provided entirely free, and without restrictions.
By Date
?A day by day listing of all the countries that have a national,
public, or bank holiday (you can then click on any country name to
view all the holidays of that country). These pages are being updated
regularly, so make sure you bookmark them.?
http://www.qppstudio.net/monthlyholidays/bank-holidays-september-2005.htm
By Country
?A set of over 230 web pages, each containing the list of bank
holidays, public holidays and national holidays for an individual
country or autonomous territory. Each page contains detailed comments
on the observance of some holidays that are not national holidays,
such as the ones restricted to civil servants or certain religious and
ethnic groups.?
http://www.qppstudio.net/bankholidays20052006.htm
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Another option is Bank Holidays of the World
?This site informs you of all the days when banks are closed due to
religious or public events. Major events (elections, strikes,
riots...) are also listed , as well as stock exchange & school
holidays in a wide selection of countries.?
The FREE SERVICE allows you to view the current calendar quarter.
The PAY SERVICE allows youto view past and future calendar years (until 2040).
Special CORPORATE SERVICE is also available (double-checked files,
edited according to your needs), along with a permanent e-mail alert
system.
http://www.bank-holidays.com/
Corporate Service: Excel files available
http://www.bank-holidays.com/listing_1.htm
The site currently has an inventory of 350,000 dates from now till the year 2040.
?You can imagine just how enormous this task is when you learn that in
Switzerland, for example, each canton has its own set of dates, or
that a football match can cause a government to proclaim a public
holiday with immediate effect (such as Cameroon's Olympic victory in
October 2000), or that in the U.S.A., the whole country is given a day
off every four years at the time of the presidential inauguration.
And of course, in unstable political situations, there are often
spectacular about-turns, when for example it turns out that a certain
holiday was in honour of the newly deposed president.
Religious data, but also event-related data
The site also informs you of events which for their own particular
reason bring economic activity to a standstill: general strikes,
elections, eclipses, and many other factors.?
http://www.bank-holidays.com/press_release.htm
Search terms used:
Worldwide holiday database
Holiday dates worldwide database
Worldwide holiday rules fixed dates
I hope the information provided is helpful!
Best regards,
Bobbie7 |
Request for Answer Clarification by
jhiggins-ga
on
20 Oct 2005 12:34 PDT
Hi Bobbie7,
I appreciate the time you took to find these answers. But they aren't
really what I'm looking for. The key part is that the dates, or rules
for the dates be in a format "easy to use for software development",
like a database. The three sites you linked to I had already found on
my own - only one offers the data to the public (not just diary
makers), and for a fee.
Maybe I should have made it clearer that I was looking for an answer
that's freely available on the Internet, and not for a fee. That's why
I was willing to offer so much money for this answer.
If the answer to my question is "such a thing does not exist", then
that's fine, and that's my answer. Otherwise, I'm not very satisified
with the current answer. If you can provide links to the actual data,
and not sites offering the data for fee, I would be satisified.
Thanks again for your time,
Jeff
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