Comment by zie

How we solve that problem is a Calendar table in the DB, and some human somewhere is required every year to update the calendar with the various holidays and what not. Then we just look up if it's in the list or not. It's a human problem anyway, and then when someone decides, wouldn't it be spiffy if we did a day of staff training on X day and did a reduced service? Sure, whatever, just put it in the calendar and blamo, accounted for properly.