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Serves /bank-holidays and /when-do-the-clocks-change on GOV.UK

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2012-02-03 · latest 2025-12-28

Mentions per year 7 mentions · busiest year 2012 (4)
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  1. I think it exists to power this easter egg?: https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/issues/678 The value I guess depends on whether its appropriate to put up decorations ie a 'celebratory' holiday. It looks like the only non-bunting…
    comment by recursivecaveat · 2025-12-28 · in More dynamic cronjobs
  2. …this issue it looks like they use tinsel at Christmas, although I'm not sure where that logic is. https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/issues/678
    comment by jordanrobinson · 2023-10-06 · in We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms
  3. https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/blob/master/README.md
    comment by ZeroGravitas · 2023-10-06 · in We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms
  4. …a contract. Also as a citizen, I love that I can open a pull request on my government's website ( https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/pull/1 ). We've got the ball rolling in opening up government data on the internet, but this is a great…
  5. …Also as a citizen, I love the fact that I can open a pull request on my government's website ( https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/pull/1 ). We've got the ball rolling in opening up government data on the internet, but this is a great…
    comment by bfirsh · 2012-10-16 · in Pull Request: Launch GOV.UK
  6. …be released as openly as possible. We've received some interesting pull requests along the way, eg. https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/pull/1
    comment by jystewart · 2012-04-07 · in Digital Design Principles from the UK Gov