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holidays_fr($year=false)

holidays_fr returns the list of holidays in France for the year $year or the current year by default.

function holidays_fr($year=false) {
if (!$year) {
$year = intval(date('Y'));
}
$easter = mktime(0, 0, 0, 3, 21 + easter_days($year), $year);
$easterday = date('j', $easter);
$eastermonth = date('n', $easter);
$easteryear = date('Y', $easter);
$holidays = array(
mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, $year), // New Year's Day
mktime(0, 0, 0, 5, 1, $year), // Labor Day
mktime(0, 0, 0, 5, 8, $year), // Victory Day
mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 14, $year), // Bastille Day
mktime(0, 0, 0, 8, 15, $year), // Assumption of Mary
mktime(0, 0, 0, 11, 1, $year), // All Saints' Day
mktime(0, 0, 0, 11, 11, $year), // Armistice Day
mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 25, $year), // Christmas Day
mktime(0, 0, 0, $eastermonth, $easterday + 1, $easteryear), // Easter Monday
mktime(0, 0, 0, $eastermonth, $easterday + 39, $easteryear), // Ascension Thursday
mktime(0, 0, 0, $eastermonth, $easterday + 50, $easteryear), // Pentecost Monday
);
sort($holidays);
return $holidays;
}

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