Date::Holidays::DE
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This module creates a list of German holidays in a given year.

It knows about special holiday regulations for all of Germany's federal 
states and also about "semi-holidays" that will be treated as holidays on 
request.

Holidays that occur on weekends can be excluded from the generated list.

The generated list can be freely formatted using regular strftime() format
definitions.


INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install


DEVELOPMENT STATUS

Mostly untested. It works and it's Good Enough(tm) for the author to 
use it in a small application he wrote for one of his clients.


DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  Date::Calc 5.0
  POSIX, Time::Local (from the standard Perl distribution)


COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

  Copyright (c) 2003, Martin Schmitt <mas@scsy.de>
 
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