General: Holiday Types

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Available Holiday Types and Descriptions:

Combinations of different holiday types

`all`	Combinations of all known types (except `fun`.
`default`	Default holiday set: `federal`, `federallocal`, `obs1`, `weekday`.
`countrydefault`	Default set depending on `country`. For most countries, this is the same as default. However, for some countries it makes sense to add further types – this type accounts for this case. Currently this only affects the UK: local holidays are added as well. This is to include days that are only valid in one of countries – e.g. Jan 2 is a holiday only for Scotland.
`obs`	Important (`obs1`), common (`obs2`) and other observances (`obs3`).
`religious`	All religious holidays: `buddhism`, `christian`, `hebrew`, `hinduism`, `muslim`, `orthodox`.

National/Federal holidays and observances

`defacto`	Some countries (e.g. Sweden) have days which are de facto treated as official holidays, even if there's no legal regulation.
`federal`	Federal/national holidays.
`federallocal`	Common local holidays.
`flagday`	Flag days.
`halfday`	Half day holidays (only afternoon off). These days can be half day holidays either by law, or being de facto half day holidays (e.g. Sweden).
`local`	Local holidays.
`local2`	Local observances.
`obs1`	Important observances.
`obs2`	Common observances.
`obs3`	Other observances.
`optional`	Optional holiday. Employment and holiday laws in certain countries allow employees to choose a limited number of holidays from a list of holidays. Some employees may choose to take the day off on these day, however, most offices and businesses remain open.
`weekday`	Normal working days. In some cases, working days are declared non-working days in order to form a longer period of consecutive non-working days. In exchange, weekend days become normal working days.

Religious holidays/observances

`buddhism`	Buddhist holidays.
`christian`	Christian holidays.
`hebrew`	Hebrew holidays.
`hinduism`	Hindu holidays.
`muslim`	Muslim holidays.
`orthodox`	Orthodox holidays.
`otherreligion`	Religious holidays, not covered by other types.

Special Events

`seasons`	Seasons (equinoxes and solstices).
`sport`	Sport events.
`tz`	Time zone events – daylight savings time start and end.

Worldwide Events

`un`	United Nations days.
`world`	Worldwide observations.

Fun Holidays

`fun`	Fun, Wacky, and Trivial Holidays.