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Below is the list of the changes, updates and amplifications made to the
Q++ World
Holidays Database web pages (also available as one of our
RSS News Feeds). These changes can be updated holidays, last
minute holidays changes, the addition of background information of each
country's holidays observance, and even sometimes news about events that we feel
may impact holidays in the near future. For full details, please follow the
provided links to visit each country's page.
See also: Other Q++ News Pages.
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22-Sep-2007 |
The prediction of Muslim public
holidays has been improved by the use of the specific calculation methods used
in various Muslim countries. In particular, the Q++ Worldwide public holidays
database now makes predictions using, where appropriate, the LCRSS, MABIMS,
JAKIM, MUIS, ESA and DIB predictive methods.
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24-Aug-2007 |
The fully reviewed Q++ Studio Worldwide Public Holidays
Database is now available to Q++ Studio Users and to licensees of the
Q++Studio Worldwide Public Holidays Database
from our updates page (note, this is not a text or
Excel file, this updater will only work when imported into an installed version
of Q++ Studio).
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12-Aug-2007 |
The full annual review
of all the predictive rules of the Q++ Studio Worldwide Public Holidays
Database is complete. We will released it to licensees after 2 weeks of final checks
(mostly spell-checking).
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16-July-2007 |
Added entries for 2 new
semi-autonomous territories:
Saint
Barthélemy and
Saint
Martin (both recently separated from
Guadeloupe).
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4-July-2007 |
We started the full annual review
of all the predictive rules of the Q++ Studio Worldwide Public Holidays
Database.
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01-Jan-2007 |
You can now subscribe to many
different
RSS Feeds that contains live links to worldwide public
holidays content, updates and news. Click on the
icons at the left of each page of the website to see the list of available
feeds. |
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28-Dec-2006 |
Added an entry for
Transdniestria (also known
as Pridnestrovie, or PMR). |
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27-Dec-2006 |
The Muslim holidays for
Singapore are now calculated
using the official MUIS (Majlis
Ugama Islam Singapura)
lunar visibility criteria. |
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20-Aug-2006 |
We have added new,
exclusive, features to our web site to make it easier to read and more
informative. For full details and links, see the News
page.
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12-Aug-2006 |
The full annual revision
of the Q++ Worldwide Database of Public Holidays is complete.
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15-July-2006 |
Added an entry for the
West Bank and Gaza (also known
as The
Palestinian Authority). |
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10-July-2006 |
Following the June 3, 2006,
referendum giving Montenegro independence from Serbia, the Serbia and Montenegro
entry has now been split into 2 separate entries: one for
Serbia and one for
Montenegro. |
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27-Jun-2006 |
Started the
yearly
revision of our database of worldwide public holidays and bank holidays. |
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19-Mar-2006 |
The religious holidays
of
Cambodia,
Myanmar and
Thailand were updated, as we can now predict the holidays for most Buddhist
South-East Asian holidays from first principles. |
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1-Sep-2005 |
South Korean holidays were re-defined
using the Korean Lunar calendar rather than the Chinese lunar calendar. This has
an effect on the date of the Lunar New Year, in less than 5% of the cases, in
which cases the date in Korea is one day later than in China. |
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17-Aug-2005 |
Yearly update is
finished. The database now contains 237 countries and territories (all the ones
listed in the
CIA Factbook). |
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If you have questions or comments, please
do not hesitate to contact us.
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