Calculating days using Business Days for the Calendar

[Gerrit]

David Stockwell wrote:
> I''m wondering if the Calendar object has an option to only do calculations 
> based on business days (ie M-F).  Additionally does it have a way to get 
> holidays into itself?
> 
> Currently I'm considering converting my calculations over to business days 
> and am wondering if there is anything built-in.  I've tried searching but 
> so far haven't seen such a thing built in.
> 
> I'm thinking I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and create my own 
> approach to
> 1) figure out the day of the week of my starting date  (Calendar.weekday() 
> should do the trick)
> 2) determine the number of days up to my finish date (i do that now)
> 3) determine the number of non-business days  (weekends + holidays)
> 4) subtract off the number in #3 from #2

Maybe the external module ''DateUtil'' (Google for it) can help you. It
is quite advanced in many aspects.

Gerrit.

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