comparison lisp/calendar/calendar.el @ 93583:073990831f47

(calendar-holidays): Doc fix.

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The intention is that (in the US) `local-holidays' be set in
site-init.el and `other-holidays' be set by the user.

Entries on the list are expressions that return (possibly empty) lists of
items of the form ((month day year) string) of a holiday in the in the
three-month period centered around `displayed-month' of `displayed-year'.
Several basic functions are provided for this purpose:

    (holiday-fixed MONTH DAY STRING) is a fixed date on the Gregorian calendar
    (holiday-float MONTH DAYNAME K STRING &optional day) is the Kth DAYNAME in

to the list (the last Monday would be specified with `-1' instead of `4').
To add the last day of Hanukkah to the list, use

     (holiday-hebrew 10 2 \"Last day of Hanukkah\")

since the Hebrew months are numbered with 1 starting from Nisan, while to
add the Islamic feast celebrating Mohammed's birthday use

     (holiday-islamic 3 12 \"Mohammed's Birthday\")

since the Islamic months are numbered from 1 starting with Muharram.  To
add an entry for the Baha'i festival of Ridvan, use

     (holiday-bahai 2 13 \"Festival of Ridvan\")

since the Baha'i months are numbered from 1 starting with Baha.  To
add Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 2, 1743 (Julian), use

     (holiday-julian 4 2 \"Jefferson's Birthday\")

To include a holiday conditionally, use the sexp form or a conditional.  For
example, to include American presidential elections, which occur on the first

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The intention is that (in the US) `local-holidays' be set in
site-init.el and `other-holidays' be set by the user.

Entries on the list are expressions that return (possibly empty) lists of
items of the form ((month day year) string) of a holiday in the
three-month period centered around `displayed-month' of `displayed-year'.
Several basic functions are provided for this purpose:

    (holiday-fixed MONTH DAY STRING) is a fixed date on the Gregorian calendar
    (holiday-float MONTH DAYNAME K STRING &optional day) is the Kth DAYNAME in

to the list (the last Monday would be specified with `-1' instead of `4').
To add the last day of Hanukkah to the list, use

     (holiday-hebrew 10 2 \"Last day of Hanukkah\")

since the Hebrew months are numbered with 1 starting from Nisan.
To add the Islamic feast celebrating Mohammed's birthday, use

     (holiday-islamic 3 12 \"Mohammed's Birthday\")

since the Islamic months are numbered from 1 starting with Muharram.
To add an entry for the Baha'i festival of Ridvan, use

     (holiday-bahai 2 13 \"Festival of Ridvan\")

since the Baha'i months are numbered from 1 starting with Baha.
To add Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 2, 1743 (Julian), use

     (holiday-julian 4 2 \"Jefferson's Birthday\")

To include a holiday conditionally, use the sexp form or a conditional.  For
example, to include American presidential elections, which occur on the first