NAME

    Date::Holidays::AU - Determine Australian Public Holidays

VERSION

    Version 0.19

SYNOPSIS

      use Date::Holidays::AU qw( is_holiday );
      my ($year, $month, $day) = (localtime)[ 5, 4, 3 ];
      $year  += 1900;
      $month += 1;
      my $state = 'VIC';
      print "Excellent\n" if is_holiday( $year, $month, $day, $state );

DESCRIPTION

    This module makes an attempt at describing Australian holidays using
    the interface defined Date::Holidays::Abstract, which defines two
    methods, is_holiday and holidays.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

    is_holiday($year, $month, $day, $state, $params)

      returns true or false depending to whether or not the date in
      question is a holiday according to the state and the additional
      parameters.

    holidays($year, $state, %params)

      Returns a hashref of all defined holidays in the year according to
      the state and the additional parameters. Keys in the hashref are in
      'mmdd' format, the values are the names of the holidays.

      The states may be 'VIC','WA','NT','QLD','TAS','NSW','SA' or 'ACT'.
      The default state is 'VIC'. The following tables lists the allowable
      parameters for each state;

         State  Parameter             Default   Values
         VIC    no_melbourne_cup      0         1 | 0
         NT     region                'Darwin'  'Alice Springs' | 'Tennant Creek' | 'Katherine' | 'Darwin' | 'Borrolooda'
         QLD    no_show_day           0         1 | 0
         NSW    include_bank_holiday  0         1 | 0
         ACT    include_bank_holiday  0         1 | 0
         TAS    holidays              []        'Devonport Cup','King Island Show','Launceston Cup','Hobart Show','Recreation Day','Burnie Show','Agfest','Launceston Show','Flinders Island Show'

DEPENDENCIES

    Uses Date::Easter for easter calculations. Makes use of the Time::Local
    modules from the standard Perl distribution.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

    Date::Holidays::AU requires no configuration files or environment
    variables.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

    None reported

AUTHOR

    David Dick <ddick@cpan.org>

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

    Support for WA's Queen's Birthday holiday only consists of hard-coded
    values. Likewise for Grand Final Eve in Victoria.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

    Date::Holidays::Abstract, Date::Holiday::DE, Date::Holiday::UK