Dates and bank holidays

[newcastle_unite]

Is there an easy way to find out the bank holidays for a year? (like Easter, Christmas etc...) I've been looking through the date functions, but haven't been able to find an appropriate function.

[barand]

There is an Easter_date function in the calendar functions group.

$easter = easter_date(2003) gives 2003-04-20

I couldn't find any Christmas functions though so I had to write one

function xmas_date ($y) {

 return date('Y-m-d', mktime(0,0,0,12,25,$y));

}

hth