Calendar

[Joseph Berdat]

Hello,
I'm looking for classes that inherit from the Calendar classe and who
includes official day off for every country.
Does anyone know if this classe exist or where can I found it....
Thanks.

[Vikram Rajan]

hi Joseph,

You could use the GregorianCalendar class which is a subclass of Calendar
in conjuction with the TimeZone class to create Calendar objects set to a
specific country's time.

For example to create a Calendar object which stores the Pacific Time:

// create a Pacific Standard Time time zone
SimpleTimeZone pdt = new SimpleTimeZone(-8 * 60 * 60 * 1000, ids[0]);
// set up rules for daylight savings time
pdt.setStartRule(Calendar.APRIL, 1, Calendar.SUNDAY, 2 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
pdt.setEndRule(Calendar.OCTOBER, -1, Calendar.SUNDAY, 2 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
// create a GregorianCalendar with the Pacific Daylight time zone
// and the current date and time
Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar(pdt);


Hope that helped.

Vikram

[Joseph Berdat]

Thank you for this response...
But, it's not exactly what I need. I'm looking for a special Calendar that
can provide official day off in a country.
For example :
The official birthday date of America is the 4 july, and it's a day off
for every people is this country.
In other country the official birthday date can be something else, like
in Switzerland where this date is the 1 august.
So, I'm looking for a class calendar which can say if a date in a special
country is a day off or not...
Thank you and excuse for my (so poor) english ...

Vikram Rajan wrote in message <39d36e8f$1@news.devx.com>...
>
>hi Joseph,
>
>You could use the GregorianCalendar class which is a subclass of Calendar
>in conjuction with the TimeZone class to create Calendar objects set to a
>specific country's time.
>
>For example to create a Calendar object which stores the Pacific Time:
>
>// create a Pacific Standard Time time zone
>SimpleTimeZone pdt = new SimpleTimeZone(-8 * 60 * 60 * 1000, ids[0]);
>// set up rules for daylight savings time
>pdt.setStartRule(Calendar.APRIL, 1, Calendar.SUNDAY, 2 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
>pdt.setEndRule(Calendar.OCTOBER, -1, Calendar.SUNDAY, 2 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
>// create a GregorianCalendar with the Pacific Daylight time zone
>// and the current date and time
>Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar(pdt);
>
>
>Hope that helped.
>
>Vikram
>

[Paul Clapham]

The Calendar class itself doesn't have a method isHoliday() or anything like
that. You might find something at IBM's Alphaworks site
(www.alphaworks.ibm.com); IBM is very good on the international aspects of
systems.

PC2

Joseph Berdat <jberdat@eim.ch> wrote in message
news:39d1b780@news.devx.com...
> Hello,
> I'm looking for classes that inherit from the Calendar classe and who
> includes official day off for every country.
> Does anyone know if this classe exist or where can I found it....
> Thanks.
>
>
>