rwec.co.uk » calendar http://rwec.co.uk/blog Rowan's World, Et Cetera Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:36:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 iCalendar for English Bank Holidays http://rwec.co.uk/blog/2009/08/icalendar-for-english-bank-holidays/ http://rwec.co.uk/blog/2009/08/icalendar-for-english-bank-holidays/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:04:45 +0000 Rowan http://rwec.co.uk/blog/?p=32 I've been making increasing use of Lightning (backed onto Google Calendar) recently, for both work and personal use, and being able to see bank holidays in my calendar would be very handy. But for some reason, all I can ever find is calendars for "UK Holidays", which are pretty useless - for one thing, not all parts of the UK have the same bank holidays, and for another, they tend to include random events like Saints' Days which aren't "holidays" in the sense of a day off work!

So I decided to make my own calendar, showing bank holidays, in England, and nothing else. And, just for the sake of it (and because there was a very nice-looking library available), I wrote my first ever Ruby script to generate the iCal file for it! A seasoned Ruby coder will probably look at it and laugh, but hey, it works!

The dates are based on this government website, which currently has data up to 2011. The resulting files should work fine in Lightning, and as imports to Google Calendar, so feel free to "subscribe".

Update: For those still finding this after the end of 2011, I should point out that I have been regularly updating this calendar as new dates are added to the government website, and will continue to do so whenever I think to check.

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