NAME
Date::Holidays::UK - Determine UK Public Holidays
SYNOPSIS
use Date::Holidays::UK;
my ($year, $month, $day) = (localtime)[ 5, 4, 3 ];
$year += 1900;
$month += 1;
print "Woohoo" if is_uk_holiday( $year, $month, $day );DESCRIPTION
Naming modules is a tricky thing, especially when similar modules already exist. The awkwardness can be further excaberated when the similar modules don't have consistent apis.
In this case we started by contrasting Date::Japanese::Holiday and Date::Holidays::DE. We've crossed the streams by taking the simple is_*_holiday interface from Date::Japanese::Holiday, and taken the Date::Holidays::<country> convention from Date::Holidays::DE. We hope nothing explodes.
SUBROUTINES
is_uk_holiday( $year, $month, $day )
Returns the name of the Holiday that falls on the given day, or undef if there is none.
Holiday Data
The DTI's webpage http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/bankhol.htm is taken as the canonical source for bank holidays.
CAVEATS
We only currently contain the DTI bank holiday detail, which at the time of writing only covers the years 2004-2007.
AUTHOR
Richard Clamp <richardc@fotango.com>, Amelie Guyot, Jerome Parfant.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2004 Fotango. All Rights Reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
BUGS
None known.
Bugs should be reported to me via the CPAN RT system. http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Date::Holidays::UK.