A Wednesday 30 July 2008, Tom Denniston escrigué:
If it's really just weekdays why not call it that instead of using a term like business days that (quite confusingly) suggests holidays are handled properly?
Well, we were adopting the name from the TimeSeries package. Perhaps the authors can answer this better than me.
Also, I view the timezone and holiday issues as totally seperate. I would definately NOT recommend basing holidays on a timezone because holidays are totally unrelated to timezones. Usually when you deal with holidays, because they vary by application and country and change over time, you provide a calendar as an outside input. That would be very useful if that were allowed, but might make the implementation rather complex.
Yeah, I agree in that timezone and holiday issues as totally separate issues. I only wanted to stress out that the implementation of these things is *complex*, and that this was the reason to not consider them. -- Francesc Alted