timeDate (version 4041.110)

holidayLONDON: London Bank Holidays

Description

Returns bank holidays in London.

Usage

holidayLONDON(year = getRmetricsOptions("currentYear"))

Value

an object of class "timeDate".

Arguments

year

an integer value or vector of years, formatted as YYYY.

Author

Original function contributed by Menon Murali; amended, corrected and rewritten by Georgi N. Boshnakov

Details

There are currently 8 bank holidays in Britain every year: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Early Spring Holiday (first Monday of May), Spring Holiday (Last Monday of May), Summer Holiday (Last Monday of August), Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Some of these holidays are referred also by alternative names or may have had other names in the past. Also the rules according to which the dates for some of them are calculated have changed over time.

Occasionaly there are one-off special holidays, usually related to significant Royal events. Also as one-off, the dates of some holidays are sometimes moved. For example, the Early spring holiday was moved several times to 8th May to coincide with Victory day on big anniversaries.

Examples

## holidayLONDON
holidayLONDON()
holidayLONDON(2008:2010)