From ynk@ome Mon Jan 6 06:08:42 1992 Received: from mcsun.EU.net by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA25654; Mon, 6 Jan 92 06:08:42 +0100 Received: by mcsun.EU.net via EUnet; id AA27479 (5.65a/CWI-2.130); Mon, 6 Jan 1992 06:08:47 +0100 Received: by kddlab.kddlabs.co.jp (5.64/6.2Junet) id AA05882; Mon, 6 Jan 92 14:03:42 +0900 Received: by tis1.tis.toshiba.co.jp (3.2/6.4J.6-R42) id AA12573; Mon, 6 Jan 92 12:40:39 JST Return-Path: Message-Id: <9201060340.AA12573@tis1.tis.toshiba.co.jp> To: sc22wg20@dkuug.dk Cc: wg15rin@dkuug.dk From: y.nakahara@ome.toshiba.co.jp Subject: Re: LC_HOLIDAY - (SC22WG20.43) date wg20 Reply-To: y.nakahara@ome.toshiba.co.jp Date: Mon Jan 6 10:21:40 JST 1992 X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Dear Johan van Wingen and WG20 experts, Season's Greetings. : Date: Tue, 31 Dec 91 15:22 CET : From: tis1!dkuug.dk!"Johan van Wingen" : To: SC22 List : Cc: SC22/WG20 mailing list : Subject: (i18nsc 33) (SC22WG20.43) date wg20 : : Yesterday I received the meeting announcement for WG20, 20-24 April. : Did not anyone notice that 20 April 1992 is Easter Monday (besides : being the birthday of the late Adolf Hitler). Is there any ISO rule : permitting having meetings on public holidays? In Paris Easter is the The ISO/IEC Directives for JTC1 does not say anything about the meetings on holidays. See the section "3.5.3 Date and place". : absolute peak of the tourist industry, and hotels as well as flights : will be booked to the full. But leaving that beside, many people have : family obligations with the Easter days. One of the first tasks of a : internationalization working group obviously should be collecting a list : of impossible meeting days. Otherwise I may suggest for later meetings : 25 December in London, 14 July in Paris, 1 January in Edinburgh, or 15 : August in Italy (1 May may do now in Moscow). (Of course, I remember a : meeting of SC22AG on Labor Day in Washington.) Yeah, collecting a list of impossible meeting days worldwide sounds interesting for me. I would like to encourage all the WG20 (and I18N) experts to post their national holiday's information to the mailing list. Here is my draft information for "LC_national_holidays=japan". Jan/1: New Year Day Jan/15: Coming-of-Age Day (celebration for new adults of 20 year-old) Feb/11: National Founding Day Mar/20: Vernal Equinox Day (date may be changed according to the year) Apr/29: Green [Verdure] Day (formerly, the Showa Emperor's Birthday) May/3: Constitution Day May/5: Children's Day Sep/15: Respect-for-the-Aged Day (no age limit :-) Sep/23: Autumnal Equinox Day (date may be changed according to the year) Oct/10: Health-Sports Day (Tokyo Olympic memorial, I believe) Nov/3: Culture Day Nov/23: Labor Thanksgiving Day Dec/23: The Emperor's Birthday In addition, according to the Japanese government law on extra national holidays that if any of the above holidays falls on Sunday, the subsequent Monday is an extra holiday, this year has the following extra holiday. May/4 (Mon) So far, the "Golden Week in Japan" this year is: Apr/29 (Wed) : National holiday - Green Day Apr/30 (Thu) : workday in general, but holiday of some companies May/1 (Fri) : May Day is not a national holiday in Japan, : holiday for some companies, and workday for other : companies. May/2 (Sat) : holiday of many companies May/3 (Sun) : National holiday - Constitution Day May/4 (Mon) : Extra national holiday May/5 (Tue) : National holiday - Children's Day There is no doubt that the Golden Week is one of the most crowded seasons in Japan. Don't try to hold international meetings in any place in the world around the Japanese Golden Week because of the following reasons. 1) Japanese people won't miss their national holidays. 2) Both fly-in to and fly-out from the Japanese international Airports are awfully crowded. It would be a pain. Regards, Yasushi Nakahara TOSHIBA Corp. Phone: +81 428-32-0722 Fax: +81 428-32-0408 Email: {y.nakahara | ynk}@ome.toshiba.co.jp | ..!tsbome!ynk