GNU bug report logs - #43677
27.1; Calc holidays off-by-one error, incorrect business day calculation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Aaron Zeng <zeng.aaron.l <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:12:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.1

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #38 received at 43677 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Aaron Zeng <zeng.aaron.l <at> gmail.com>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 43677 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43677: 27.1; Calc holidays off-by-one error, incorrect
 business day calculation
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 18:47:58 -0400
Mattias, that patch seems to work well for me (I tested this by just
loading the lisp into an older version of emacs, since I don't have
experience compiling emacs from source).  I don't need business days
for BC dates.

Thanks all for the quick responses.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 6:19 AM Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org> wrote:
>
> Aaron, does this patch solve your problem?
>
> It turned out that the ability to select arbitrary holiday weekdays never really worked correctly; the patch attempts to do something about that as well.
>
> The business days code also doesn't work at all very well for BC dates, which of course limits its applicability somewhat but perhaps not critically so. Please tell me if that is something you need fixed.
>
>
>




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