how do I parse a date

Personally I like DateTime::Format::Strptime because it lets you define exactly the expected input format.

figure out if it is the 4th Thursday of the month

( $datetime->dow==4 && $datetime->weekday_of_month==4 )

Putting that together:

use DateTime::Format::Strptime;
my $strp = DateTime::Format::Strptime->new(
    pattern => '%Y-%m-%d', time_zone=>'UTC', on_error=>'croak' );
my $dt = $strp->parse_datetime('2017-11-23');
my $is_thanksgiving = $dt->month==11 && $dt->dow==4
    && $dt->weekday_of_month==4;

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As for determining the date of Thanksgiving, I agree with choroba that the best thing to do is use an existing module. But just to demonstrate one way to do a calculation like that:

sub thanksgiving {
    my $year = shift;
    my $dt = DateTime->new(year=>$year,month=>11,day=>1);
    $dt->add(days=>1) while $dt->dow!=4;
    $dt->add(weeks=>3);
    return $dt;
}

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(Tested against data from Wikipedia for the years 2000 to 2399.)

In reply to Re: Calculating holidays by haukex
in thread Calculating holidays by htmanning

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