Bug 65827

Summary:	United Kingdom holidays are local to England & Wales
Product:	[Applications] kdepimlibs	Reporter:	David Jarvie <djarvie>
Component:	kholidays	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jlayt
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	4.5
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Description David Jarvie 2003-10-11 00:26:47 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

"United Kingdom" is listed in the holidays plugins in KOrganizer. The holiday dates actually are only for England and Wales, not the whole of the UK. Scotland and Northern Ireland, which are also part of the UK, each have their own holidays.

This is an example the irritating habit that people have of using the terms UK and England as if they were equivalent. They are not! There are other parts of the UK which are not England.

Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2003-10-11 01:20:24 UTC

*** Bug 65828 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2003-10-11 14:21:29 UTC

How about you provide the missing holiday files, that would surely be an improvement.

Comment 3 David Jarvie 2003-10-11 15:46:51 UTC

Unfortunately, in Scotland, certain public holidays are common throughout 
Scotland, but the rest are set by each local authority. So it is not possible 
to provide a proper holiday file for Scotland (although it would be possible to 
have a partial file for the national Scottish holidays - I could do this if 
desired). It would be necessary to have a couple of dozen different files for 
each area or city within Scotland. This would, I think, be impractical to 
supply unless someone has a lot of time to research the subject. 
 
As for Northern Ireland, I would rather leave it to someone who lives there in 
case there are complications there similar to Scotland. 
 
In the meantime, I suggest changing the name of the holiday_gb file to 
holiday_England&Wales.

Comment 4 Reinhold Kainhofer 2006-11-02 19:09:24 UTC

Reassigning all KOrganizer bug reports and wishes to the newly created 
korganizer-devel mailing list.

Comment 5 John Layt 2010-05-29 01:42:25 UTC

I just love closing ancient bugs :-)

In SC 4.5 I've added support for regional holiday files, so we now have separate holiday files for "England and Wales", "Scotland", and "Northern Ireland" which will be listed as such rather than United Kingdom.  It didn't go all the way down to local holidays, but it's a vast improvement :-)