Cron jobs and holidays

[James Knott]

Neil Watson wrote:
> How would you ensure that a cron job was not run on a statutory holiday?
> My current thought was
>
> 4 4 * * 2-6 grep `date +%Y%m%d` /etc/holidays 1>/dev/null && my_script
>
> Using this method the holidays file is kept manually.  Is there a more
> elegant and automatic way?
>
Well, given that stat holidays vary considerably with jurisdiction,
you'd need a list from somewhere.  How else would your computer know
what the holidays are, where you live?

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