Date::Manip has decent support for holiday calendars. Calendars are defined in "GlobalCnf" files (as the POD calls them). 

# example holiday section in file monk.conf

  *Holiday

   1/1                             = New Year's Day
   third Monday in Feb             = Presidents' Day
   fourth Thu in Nov               = Thanksgiving
   4/25                            = The bestest holiday ever!
   # The Friday after Thanksgiving is an unnamed holiday most places
   fourth Thu in Nov + 1 day       =

   1*0:0:0:0:0:0*EASTER            = Easter
   1*11:0:11:0:0:0*CWD             = Veteren's Day (observed)
   1*0:0:0:0:0:0*EASTER,PD5        = Good Friday


# quickie Perl script
use Date::Manip;

Date_Init("TZ=EDT","GlobalCnf=monk.conf");

if ( Date_IsHoliday(ParseDate('today')) ) {
    print "Today is " . Date_IsHoliday(ParseDate('today'));
}

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Update: Added the code example.

--Solo

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In reply to Re: Is there a "Holiday" module? by Solo
in thread Is there a "Holiday" module? by AssFace

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