Ephemeris binding?

[glhopital (Gaël L'hopital)]

@rlkoshak

So my question is what is changing it from all caps and in the Thanksgiving case adding the “Day”? It would be best if the users didn’t have to figure out the names of the holidays through trial and error so they can write their Rules with confidence they will not fail because they forgot to add “Day” to their if statement. The fact that it added the “Day” to Thanksgiving but not “Christmas” means that the translation is not consistent and therefore not predictable.

This is a really valid point. Ephemeris uses Jollyday ability to translate an “holiday code” (THANKSGIVING) to a nice user friendly “holiday name” more descriptive and localized.
You can see the mappings here
But rules and triggers do not need so much attention, so I think we should have an alternative way to get both of these informations made available.

So I think I’ll plan three evolutions for Ephemeris :

• Ability to get both code and localized name
• Ability to query toward a given holiday code
• Ability to get next coming holiday