Hi:

Hello all:

For those using outlook2002, u'll notice that singapore holiday are only supplied up to 2004. To install PH from 2006-2012, goto

download public holiday 2005-2012

Download "Holidays for 2006 through 2012" and run it. U can then sync to your handheld with holidays added in.

For more info on how to customise your outlook to show public holiday, goto one of the related post in this section.

If u need chinese new year dates up to 2012, install the HongKong holiday package. But the problem is that after installing HK holiday, u'll find lots of other holidays like "Buddha birthday etc etc" which u don't need. To clear all other unnecessary holidays, at outlook click: View,current view ,
event. You'll see a list of public holiday installed. Take away holidays that u don't't need except for chinese new year and those standard singapore holiday.

Hope that this helps.

To download Good Friday dates up to 2012, install "Christian religious holidays" and goto [view,current view, events] to take away all other festivals except Good Friday-Western which is the actual Good Friday celebrated in Singapore.

I can't get the rest of the festivals such as Haji,puasa ,vesak and depavali as they are to be calculated on the individual almanac when the time comes I think.

definitely useful to a noob like me. thanks. will give it a try

This adding of calendar option can be found in calendar settings in my outlook 2003 itself, but its good as a shortcut for those who couldn't find it.

Anyway to removed the installed holiday?

This is great . It really help, when I Syn with my O2 XDA IIi. Thanks.

Is there a strictly singapore holidays import file?

I simplified the importing process of Singapore PH events into Outlook for my own use and I'm sharing the import files with this community. I've attached a zip file which includes 2 Outlook .hol files.

They are:
sgOutlook_fixed_dates_2006-2012.hol
sgOutlook_movable_dates_2006.hol

The first one contains Singapore holidays from 2006-2012 found on http://www.outlook-tips.net/ . The holidays are:
New Year's Day
Chinese New Year (1st day)
Chinese New Year (2nd day)
Good Friday - Western
Labor Day - May Day
National Day
Christmas Day

The 2nd one contains the rest of the local holidays for 2006 only.
Hari Raya Haji
Vesak Day
Deepavali
Hari Raya Puasa
Hari Raya Haji


Before you start using these files, you may want to goto View/Arranged By/Current View/Events (in Outlook 2003) and remove previously added holidays by highlighting and deleting them in order to avoid duplicate events. Double click the first .hol file to start adding the events. Select the only option, i.e. Singapore and click OK. Repeat the process with the second .hol file. When prompted "Holidays for Singapore are already installed. Do you want to install them again?", click Yes. The order for running the .hol files is not important. Lasty, do a sync and you will have the holidays in your PDA.

If anyone can give me the dates of Vesak Day, Deepavali and the Muslims holidays for 2007 and later, I'll be happy to update the import files.

Pretty updated: http://www.mom.gov.sg/PublicHolidays/

2007


New Year's Day
Monday*
1 January 2007

CNY
Sunday**
18 February 2007
Monday
19 February 2007

Good Friday
Friday
6 April 2007

Labour Day
Tuesday
1 May 2007

Vesak Day
Thursday
31 May 2007

National Day
Thursday
9 August 2007

Hari Raya Puasa
Saturday
13 October 2007

Deepavali
Thursday
8 November 2007

Hari Raya Haji
Thursday
20 December 2007

Christmas Day
Tuesday
25 December 2007

* The following Tuesday, 2 Jan 2007, will be a public holiday in view o the Hari Raya Haji on 31 Dec 2006 falling on a Sunday.
** The following Tuesday, 20 February 2007, will be a public holiday

Thanks burpz! Very nice info indeed.

Since I cannot edit my previous post now, I'll just include a third Outlook .hol file that contains the below movable holidays for 2007.

Vesak Day
Hari Raya Puasa
Deepavali
Hari Raya Haji

Open the attached zip file and run the .hol file as per method described in my previous post. This will complete Singapore public holidays for 2007.

I just hope they won't move the dates again.

PS: I did not mark 2 Jan 2007* and 20 February 2007** as holidays on the calendar since these are "implied" public holidays.

Thank you!

gd tip.try it later

thank you very much!!! =)))

this one very useful, thank you for your info. :)

thank you all guys

thx man! v useful

Thank you! Was trying to figure out how to download PH.! Thanks

i must say this speeds up my productivity many fold cos i plan cse schedules and the PH always needs to be accounted for during the cse.

many thanks

i can't seem to download the zip file. the link points to an index.htm file, and not thought he zip file.

Nice stuffs. Thank you. Now we no need to input manually next time.

Thank you brother.

Hi danielcheong,

To download the zip file, you right-click on the link and select "Save Target As...". If you see "index.htm" in the File name field, rename it to "whatever-filename-you-like.zip". Double-click on your renamed zip file and it should open correctly.

Thanks for the instructions and the files! Very useful indeed!

I love this...thanks bro

Add-on for movable dates of Singapore Public Holidays 2008.

so is it possible to have this inside the calander in pocket pc ?

You have to download the data to your desktop Outlook and sync the data to your device when it is connected via Activesync. Strangely i can only find Hari Raya Puasa/Haji and Deepavali in my calendar thats all.

i've added those onto my PC outlook and those holidays appeared on the calendar but somehow on my PPC, nothing appears.

I've already set my activesync to sync with my PC's calendar but still doesnt work..

Can anyone help to troubleshoot?

finally got it into my calendar already.

Haven't checked this forum in a while. Sorry for the long reply.

I just want to clarify that the above file in post #24 is an add-on for 2008 movable holiday dates only, i.e. Vesak Day, Deepavali, Hari Raya Puasa and Haji for the year 2008.

You must install sgOutlook_fixed_dates_2006-2012.hol (inside sgOutlook.zip) in my earlier post #7, in conjunction with this add-on in order to use it correctly.

The reason is the above mentioned movable holidays in Singapore cannot be determined years in advance. They are only decided within the year or year before. The rest of the public holidays are predeterminable and have fixed dates. The fixed dates for 2008 are already included in the very first installation (sgOutlook_fixed_dates_2006-2012.hol). I did not add the fixed dates in the add-on. If you are not careful with duplicate dates, you will create redundancies in your PPC's noficiation database queue thus hogging your resources.

If you wish to get all public holidays on a yearly basis instead, you may wish to check out Ministry of Manpower (Note: This link will most probably become invalid next year). You may need to know how to convert iCal format into your PPC calendar though.

I think I'll stop attaching add-ons in the future, so as to avoid confusions like this.

2009 nextttttttt

It has already been available on MOM's website for at least 5 months already.