Updating Holidays

Updating Holidays

The file /usr/lib/acct/holidays contains the prime/nonprime table for the accounting system. The table should be edited to reflect your location's holiday schedule for the year. The format is composed of three types of entries:

Comment Lines, which may appear anywhere in the file as long as the first character in the line is an asterisk.
Year Designation Line, which should be the first data line (noncomment line) in the file and must appear only once. The line consists of three fields of four digits each (leading white space is ignored). For example, to specify the year as 1992, prime time at 9:00 a.m., and nonprime time at 4:30 p.m., the following entry is appropriate:
1992 0900 1630
A special condition allowed for in the time field is that the time 2400 is automatically converted to 0000.
Company Holidays Lines, which follow the year designation line and have the following general format:
day-of-year Month Day Description of Holiday
The day-of-year field is a number in the range of 1 through 366, indicating the day for the corresponding holiday (leading white space is ignored). The other three fields are actually commentary and are not currently used by other programs.