Mastronardi.Utils.Date 1.1.4

Date Utilities

Easter

You can use our easter calendar for calculating easter for the next thousands of years. You can choose between the Catholic or Orthodox easter of select it automatically:

autoselect is by using:

AbstractEaster.CreateInstance(CultureInfo)

Depending on the CultureInfo it will create the correct instance. You can also create CatholicEaster or an OrthodoxEaster yourself.

Use the next methods to get the data for a specific year.

public abstract System.DateTime EasterSunday(int year);

public abstract System.DateTime GoodFriday(int year);

Daylight savings time

Calculating when DST starts and ends can be usefull, here you can find out how to get those dates:

Get them for this year

DST.GetTransitionTimes(out DateTime start, out DateTime end)

Get them for a specified year

DST.GetTransitionTimes(int year, out DateTime start, out DateTime end)

Get them for a specified year and timezone

DST.GetTransitionTimes(TimeZoneInfo timeZone, int year, out DateTime start, out DateTime end)

Holidays

If you want to add a number of working days to a date, it is usefull to not just do 5 + 2 for the weekend because there might be other holidays. So what do we do? well, with this function:

Holidays.AddWorkingDays(DateTime currentDate, int days)

it will add days, but also recognizes the other holidays (for Belgium for now)

To have a standard way to get new years day we have this method:

Holidays.GetNewyearsDate(int year)

To get the labour day (for belgium) use this method: Holidays.GetLabourDay(int year)

To get the Ascencion day for a specific year

Holidays.GetAscensionDay(int year)

To get Whit Sunday for a specific year

Holidays.GetWhitSunday(int year)

Get Whit Monday

Holidays.GetWhitMonday(int year)

Get Belgian national holiday

Holidays.GetBelgiumNationalHoliday(int year)

Get the Flemish Holiday (Vlaamse Feestdag)

Holidays.GetFlemishHoliday(int year)

Gets the assumption of the holy virgin. (Maria hemelvaart, Onze Lieve vrouwe hemelvaart)

Holidays.GetAssumptionOfTheHolyVirgin(int year)

Get the All Saints day

Holidays.GetAllSaintsDay(int year)

Get all souls day

Holidays.GetAllSoulsDay(int year)

Get Armistice Day

Holidays.GetArmisticeDay(int year)

Get Christmas Day

Holidays.GetChristmasDay(int year)

Get Christmas Monday

Holidays.GetChristmasMonday(int year)

Get Kings Day (The Netherlands)

Holidays.GetKingsDayTheNetherlands(int year)

Check whether its a public holiday in Belgium on a specific date:

Holidays.IsPublicHolidayInBelgium(DateTime date)

Check whether its a public holiday in The Netherlands on a specific date:

Holidays.IsPublicHolidayInTheNetherlands(DateTime date)

Helper method to check whether the specified date is in the weekend.

Holidays.IsWeekend(DateTime date)

Check whether the specified date is a working day in Belgium

Holidays.IsBelgianWorkingDay(DateTime date)

Check whether the specified date is a working day in The Netherlands

Holidays.IsDutchWorkingDay(DateTime date)