Date::Holidays::FR - Determine French holidays

  use Date::Holidays::FR;
  my ($year, $month, $day) = (localtime)[5, 4, 3];
  $year  += 1900;
  $month += 1;
  print "Woohoo" if is_fr_holiday($year, $month, $day);

  my ($month, $day) = get_easter($year);
  my ($month, $day) = get_ascension($year);
  my ($month, $day) = get_pentecost($year);

is_fr_holiday method return true value when the day is holiday.

There is 11 holidays in France:

* 1er janvier : Nouvel an

* Lundi de Pâques

* 1er mai : Fête du travail

* 8 mai : Armistice 39-45

* Ascension

* Pentecôte

* 14 juillet : Fête nationale

* 15 août : Assomption

* 1er novembre : Toussaint

* 11 novembre : Armistice 14-18

* 25 décembre : Noël

Easter is computed with Date::Easter module.

Ascension is 39 days after easter.

Pentecost is 50 days after easter.

Returns the name of the holiday in french that falls on the given day, or undef if there is none.

Returns the month and day of easter day for the given year.

Returns the month and day of ascension day for the given year.

Returns the month and day of pentecost day for the given year.

Please report any requests, suggestions or bugs via the RT bug-tracking system at http://rt.cpan.org/ or email to bug-Date-Holidays-FR\@rt.cpan.org.

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Date-Holidays-FR is the RT queue for Date::Holidays::FR. Please check to see if your bug has already been reported.

Copyright 2004

Fabien Potencier, fabpot@cpan.org

This software may be freely copied and distributed under the same terms and conditions as Perl.

perl(1), Date::Holidays::UK, Date::Holidays::DE.