11th February 1994                         
                         
                         UK PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

                 Agenda File for the Psion Series 3a

Having seen the U.S. public holiday Agenda file by Jaime Pereira for
the Series 3 and the 3a upgrade by Michael Geary, I thought that we 
could do with an equivalent over here in the UK. So I shamelessly set
about cribbing their idea (and even this text file!) and converting
it to UK dates. I'm afraid it is Series 3a only, as the 3a Agenda
files are not downwardly compatible with the basic Series 3.

This file contains the sort of entries you would expect to find in 
your average diary: bank holidays, summer times, religious dates 
etc, from the year 1994 to 2005. Bank holidays are marked for England
and Wales only, though I have included some significant Scottish, Welsh 
and Irish dates to keep everyone happy! At present I cannot find out 
whether the proposed new bank holiday for the Autumn instead of May Day 
is going ahead, but that does not affect 1994 anyway. I could also only
find out summer times for 1994 and 1995.


The Year View symbol varies with the different dates:

  H for bank holidays.
  A for for St. Valentine's Day, Mothering Sunday and Father's Day.
    (If you forget one of these you will be in the same kind of trouble
     as if you forget your anniversary!)
  S for British Summer Times
  None for other dates.

These are the dates included:

Year    Name                            Date
symbol 

  H     New Year's Day                  1st January
  A     St. Valentine's Day             14th February
        Ash Wednesday                   varies
        St. David's Day                 1st March
  A     Mothering Sunday                Fourth Sunday in Lent
        St. Patrick's Day               17th March
  S     British Summer Time begins      varies  
  H     Good Friday                     varies
  H     Easter Sunday                   varies
  H     Easter Monday                   varies
        St George's Day                 23rd April
  H     May Day Bank Holiday            First Monday in May
        Ascension Day                   varies
        Pentecost                       varies
  H     Spring Bank Holiday             Last Monday in May
        Queen's Official Birthday       11th June
  A     Father's Day                    Third Sunday in June
  H     Summer Bank Holiday             Last Monday in August
  S     British Summer Time Ends        varies
        Halloween                       31st October
        St Andrew's Day                 30th November
  H     Christmas Day                   25th December
  H     Boxing Day                      26th December
        St Stephen's Day                26th December
  H     Christmas Bank Holiday          Only if Christmas is on a weekend

To use HOLI-UK.AGN, copy it into an \AGN directory and then use the
Merge In command in Agenda to merge it into your main Agenda file.
Select Entries in the Merge In dialog, so only the entries are merged
and not the preferences.

I have checked everything pretty thoroughly, but if there are any 
errors or important omissions, or if anyone has any idea about summer 
times or the new Autumn Bank Holiday, then please let me know.

Cheers,

Sean Wright

s9206148@brookes.ac.uk