[Remind-Fans] A bounty of holidays

[Dianne Skoll]

Hi, everyone,

I've spent the last few days hacking away at the Python holidays
library (https://pypi.org/project/holidays/).  I made some atrocious
modifications that I'm too embarrased to think about, plus some even
more atrocious Perl post-processing code, but the upshot is we end up
with all the holiday files in this commit:

https://git.skoll.ca/Skollsoft-Public/Remind/commit/dea14be2d52e1353859ff02da4c57beb78b6a54d

Please take a look.  Some caveats:

1) I've tried to preserve the holiday semantics as much as possible,
translating the Python logic into Remind logic.  But I may have missed
some things that could result in either missing holidays or movable
holidays incorrectly being specified for a non-movable date.  Please check!

2) Any holidays relying on non-Gregorian calendars (like Persian, Islamic
or Jewish holidays) are either missing or wrong.

3) I had to use a judgement call as to whether or not a holiday deserved
an OMIT or merely a REM.  I decided that all holidays specified in the
Python project as 'public' or 'government' should get an OMIT; everything
else gets a REM.

4) Holidays that only get a REM on the national level that deserve an
OMIT in a subregion level don't get that OMIT... they just get the
national-level REM.  I don't think there are many of those... maybe not
even any?

Regards,

Dianne.
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