CREATE _ HOLIDAYS Procedure

Standard Library procedure that creates the system variable !Holiday_List, which is used in calculating Date/Time compression.

Usage

CREATE_HOLIDAYS, dt_list

Input Parameters

dt_list

A Date/Time variable containing one or more days to be specified as holidays.

Keywords

None.

Discussion

The result is stored in the system variable !Holiday_List, a 50-element Date/Time array. !Holiday_List is used in calculating Date/Time compressions for functions that take the Compress keyword. For instance, the functions DT_SUBTRACT, DT_ADD, and DT_DURATION can take the Compress keyword which, if set, will exclude holidays from their results. In addition, the PLOT procedure uses the Compress keyword to exclude holidays from a plot.

Example1

The following commands define !Holiday_List to contain the dates for Christmas and New Years:

holidays=STR_TO_DT(['12-25-92', '1-1-92'], date_fmt=1)
CREATE_HOLIDAYS, holidays

Example 2

CREATE_HOLIDAYS, STR_TO_DT('04-july-1992', $
    Date_Fmt=4)

See Also

CREATE_WEEKENDS

DT_COMPRESS

LOAD_HOLIDAYS

STR_TO_DT

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