[Remind-Fans] Different sets of holidays (was Re: I need your help: Holiday data)

[Dianne Skoll]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2024 19:18:44 -0500
Tim Chase via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:

> I want to keep my holiday determinations in one place.  However
> they are OMITs for some events and not for others.  For example,
> our city has most-but-not-all US Federal holidays off.  And
> environmental-services/trash-pickup is based on the City holiday
> schedule.  However those holiday dates DO count as OMITs for
> other events.  And the school holiday schedule is a third
> mostly-the-same-but-slightly-different set of holidays.

There's no really nice solution to this.  One way is to set a variable
to say which holidays we're interested in, and another variable to say
whether or not to just OMIT them or OMIT them and also print the name
/ make a calendar entry.  Then have a DO file that takes care of the
holidays.  Something like:

    IF print_them
        OMIT 1 Jan MSG New Year's Day
    ELSE
        OMIT 1 Jan
    ENDIF

    # Let's say something is not a holiday for school purposes
    IF holidays_wanted != "school"
        IF print_them
            OMIT ... MSG whatever
        ELSE
            OMIT ...
        ENDIF
    ENDIF

Then from the calling file:

    # For the calendar
    SET print_them 1
    SET holidays_wanted "standard"
    DO holidays.rem

    # School stuff
    CLEAR-OMIT-CONTEXT
    SET print_them 0
    SET holidays_wanted "school"
    DO holidays.rem

Yeah... not super pretty. :(

Regards,

Dianne.