calendars functionality is now provided by frontend.
Serves calendars in a clear and accessible format, along with JSON and iCal exports of the data.
- scope: each type of calendar (eg daylight saving, bank holidays) is known as a scope. A scope has its own view templates, JSON data source and primary route.
This is a Ruby on Rails application that serves static pages based on JSON files. It does not use a database.
JSON data files are stored in lib/data/<scope>.json, with a divisions hash for separate data per region (united-kingdom, england-and-wales, scotland or northern-ireland).
Each scope's data file contains a list of divisions, containing a list of years, each with a list of events:
{
"title": "UK bank holidays",
"description": "UK bank holidays calendar - see UK bank holidays and public holidays for 2012 and 2013",
"divisions": {
"england-and-wales": {
"title": "England and Wales",
"2011": [{
"title": "New Year's Day",
"date": "02/01/2011",
"notes": "Substitute day"
}]
}
}
}The division title attribute is optional. If this is not present the slug will be humanized and used instead.
- publishing-api: this app sends data to the content-store.
bundle exec rake publishing_api:publishwill send the calendars to the publishing-api.
- Is performed automatically on data sent to publishing api.
A rake task has been created to generate the bank holidays JSON for a given year. They need to be then inserted, and modified to take into account any additions/modifications made by proclamation. Run the rake task like this:
bundle exec rake bank_holidays:generate_json[2016]
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For summer time, we can use the Summer Time Act 1972.
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Bank holidays are determined both by law and by proclamation. We use the following legislation: the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 and the St Andrew's Day Bank Holiday Act.
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The proclamations of holidays are published in The Gazette. Holidays are announced there 6 months to one year in advance, usually between the months of May and July for the following year.