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Date - Business Days and Holidays - Germany

SchulferienHolidayHolidaysBundeslandVacation
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Extract the public holidays for each federal geman state ("Bundesland") - also extract the vacations ("Schulferien") for a given year.

You can adapt this for other countries as well. Let ChatGPT give you a list of holidays and vacations.

You will have a list of the dates and you can then match which day is a holiday or when schools will be closed. You can count how many states are on holiday. If it is 16 it is a national holiday.

You might have to deal with regional special holiday like the 8th of August in Augsburg "Hohes Friedensfest" or carnival ("Rosenmontag").

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Also: Calculate the number of working days between any give dates. Excluding Saturdays and Sundays and also a given list of dates

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Also: Check how many Bundesländer's schools will be closed on any given day - for ML you could give weights by the population or use this if you have a location based task

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Also: Mark gap days (Brückentage) that are between a public holiday and a weekend for example

External resources

  • R solution with bizdays
  • A solution with R using "officeholidays"
  • Python Conda: Generate and work with holidays in Python
  • Medium: Business Days and Holidays in KNIME
  • Forum: first working day in the next month
  • AP-14411 - Ticket to handle Business Days in KNIME
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