Feiertage

Feiertage is a Go/Golang library for calculating German and Austrian bank holidays. It includes the calculation of the date of Easter and, more importantly, offers ways to retrieve public holidays for a state of Germany or Austria (=Bundesland).

The library is probably useful only for people realizing use cases with special requirements inside of Austria or Germany, such as shift schedules or capacity calculation.

Documentation

See https://godoc.org/github.com/wlbr/feiertage

Usage:

There are two types of functions:

• <feiertag>(year) and
• <region>(year optional:IncludingSundays:true)

<feiertag> returns an extended time object (type feiertag). It carries the date of the holiday in the requested year plus the name of the holiday. <feiertag> may be any of the following:

<region> returns an object of type region. It offers a list of public holidays valid in the specified state as well as the name and the shortname of the state as attributes. <region> may be any of:

The optional region function argument includingSundays switches the behavior of the region function to include "gesetzliche Feiertage" that fall on Sundays in its output. This is important in Brandenburg, particularly for Easter and Pentecost Sunday. If you are calculating shift costs you will need to know even the holidays "hidden by Sunday".

The region functions return the public holidays ("gesetzliche Feiertage"). The function all returns all defined "special dates", such as Penance Day (Buß- und Bettag) or the begin/end of daylight saving time.

The regional functions for Austrian Bundesländer include saints' days which are state-level holidays, meaning schools etc. are generally closed but workers don't get the day off by default. If you don't want to include these days in your planning, it's okay to reference Österreich instead, as legal holidays are (more or less) synchronised across all Austrian states (Bundesländer).

Examples:

fmt.Println(Ostern(2016))
--> 27.03.2016 Ostern


fmt.Println(BußUndBettag(2016))
--> 16.11.2016 Buß- und Bettag



fmt.Println(Brandenburg(2016))
--> Brandenburg (BB)
    01.01.2016 Neujahr
    25.03.2016 Karfreitag
    27.03.2016 Ostern
    28.03.2016 Ostermontag
    01.05.2016 Tag der Arbeit
    05.05.2016 Christi Himmelfahrt
    15.05.2016 Pfingsten
    16.05.2016 Pfingstmontag
    03.10.2016 Tag der deutschen Einheit
    31.10.2016 Reformationstag
    25.12.2016 Weihnachten
    26.12.2016 Zweiter Weihnachtsfeiertag


fmt.Println(Brandenburg(2016, false))
--> Brandenburg (BB)
    01.01.2016 Neujahr
    25.03.2016 Karfreitag
    28.03.2016 Ostermontag
    01.05.2016 Tag der Arbeit
    05.05.2016 Christi Himmelfahrt
    16.05.2016 Pfingstmontag
    03.10.2016 Tag der deutschen Einheit
    31.10.2016 Reformationstag
    25.12.2016 Weihnachten
    26.12.2016 Zweiter Weihnachtsfeiertag

Command line tool

A little command line tool is included as well. It can be compiled using make buildcmd or go build cmd/feiertage/feiertage.go This will create an executable feiertage.

See https://github.com/wlbr/feiertage/releases/latest for downloads.

Synopsis

feiertage: [options] year

Code

• Documentation: https://godoc.org/github.com/wlbr/feiertage
• Lint: http://go-lint.appspot.com/github.com/wlbr/feiertage
• Continuous Integration:
• Test Coverage:
• Metrics: