Chinese holiday's

[jim]

Does anyone know how to add Chinese holidays to an Outlook 2003 calendar? I
see a lot of different country's listed, but China.

Thanks.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Does anyone know how to add Chinese holidays to an Outlook 2003
calendar? I see a lot of different country's listed, but China.

Sure. Create a Holiday file containing the holidays you want. It's fairly
simple. Create a file called, for example, "Chinese Holidays.hol" and edit
it with Notepad, adding the holidays in this form:

[Country] #ofholidays
Holiday 1,yyyy/mm/dd
Holiday 2,yyyy/mm/dd
...etc.

So, a start on the Chinese Holiday file might look like this:

[China] 30
Chinese New Year (1st day),2008/2/7
Chinese New Year (1st day),2009/1/26
Chinese New Year (1st day),2010/2/14
Chinese New Year (1st day),2011/2/3
Chinese New Year (1st day),2012/1/23
Chinese New Year (2nd day),2008/2/8
Chinese New Year (2nd day),2009/1/27
Chinese New Year (2nd day),2010/2/15
Chinese New Year (2nd day),2011/2/4
Chinese New Year (2nd day),2012/1/24
Chinese New Year (3rd day),2008/2/9
Chinese New Year (3rd day),2009/1/28
Chinese New Year (3rd day),2010/2/16
Chinese New Year (3rd day),2011/2/5
Chinese New Year (3rd day),2012/1/25
Ching Ming Festival,2008/4/4
Ching Ming Festival,2009/4/4
Ching Ming Festival,2010/4/5
Ching Ming Festival,2011/4/5
Ching Ming Festival,2012/4/4
Chung Yeung Festival,2008/10/7
Chung Yeung Festival,2009/10/26
Chung Yeung Festival,2010/10/16
Chung Yeung Festival,2011/10/5
Chung Yeung Festival,2012/10/23
The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival,2008/9/19
The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival,2009/9/19
The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival,2010/9/23
The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival,2011/9/13
The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival,2012/10/1

Then double-click the HOL file.

 

[jim]

That's just it. I don't know all the holiday's, so i was hoping Microsoft
had it as a plug-in or download. If you go into the calendar options in
Outlook2k3, you can choose to add other country's holidays to your calendar.
There's lots of country's listed, but not China.

Does anyone know how to add Chinese holidays to an Outlook 2003
calendar? I see a lot of different country's listed, but China.

Sure. Create a Holiday file containing the holidays you want. It's
fairly simple. Create a file called, for example, "Chinese Holidays.hol"
and edit it with Notepad, adding the holidays in this form:

[Country] #ofholidays
Holiday 1,yyyy/mm/dd
Holiday 2,yyyy/mm/dd
..etc.

So, a start on the Chinese Holiday file might look like this:

[China] 30
Chinese New Year (1st day),2008/2/7
Chinese New Year (1st day),2009/1/26
Chinese New Year (1st day),2010/2/14
Chinese New Year (1st day),2011/2/3
Chinese New Year (1st day),2012/1/23
Chinese New Year (2nd day),2008/2/8
Chinese New Year (2nd day),2009/1/27
Chinese New Year (2nd day),2010/2/15
Chinese New Year (2nd day),2011/2/4
Chinese New Year (2nd day),2012/1/24
Chinese New Year (3rd day),2008/2/9
Chinese New Year (3rd day),2009/1/28
Chinese New Year (3rd day),2010/2/16
Chinese New Year (3rd day),2011/2/5
Chinese New Year (3rd day),2012/1/25
Ching Ming Festival,2008/4/4
Ching Ming Festival,2009/4/4
Ching Ming Festival,2010/4/5
Ching Ming Festival,2011/4/5
Ching Ming Festival,2012/4/4
Chung Yeung Festival,2008/10/7
Chung Yeung Festival,2009/10/26
Chung Yeung Festival,2010/10/16
Chung Yeung Festival,2011/10/5
Chung Yeung Festival,2012/10/23
The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival,2008/9/19
The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival,2009/9/19
The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival,2010/9/23
The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival,2011/9/13
The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival,2012/10/1

Then double-click the HOL file.

 

[Brian Tillman]

That's just it. I don't know all the holiday's, so i was hoping
Microsoft had it as a plug-in or download.

They should be easy enough to find on the Internet. Start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_holidays . You might also
want to write to customerservice at calendar-updates.com to see if they'll
create one for you (for a feee).

If you go into the
calendar options in Outlook2k3, you can choose to add other country's
holidays to your calendar. There's lots of country's listed, but not
China.

That's because Chinese holidays aren't included in the default HOL file
Microsoft gives you. The countries listed in the dialogue are the ones
listed in brackets in the HOL file, as indicated in my example.

 

[jim]

So i guess the answer is "no" then? Microsoft doesn't have those holidays
as a download/add-on for Outlook?

 

[Brian Tillman]

So i guess the answer is "no" then? Microsoft doesn't have those
holidays as a download/add-on for Outlook?

I can't find one at MS, but Google found this as its first hit:
http://pinyinjoe.com/pinyin/chinese_festivals.htm