majorbloodnock (6/2/2008)
For instance, I found out that, in the UK, when Christmas falls on a Saturday, the following Monday is the Boxing Day bank holiday and the bank holiday in lieu of Christmas Day occurs afterwards on the Tuesday :hehe:.
I suppose that depends which way you look at it - you could say that Monday is in lieu of Christmas Day and Tuesday is in lieu of Boxing Day... or is there actually a rule somewhere that defines it in the way you say? You can't always apply formulas to bank holiday calculations - for example in 1995 the government changed the May bank holiday from the 1st to the 8th to celebrate the 50th anniversary of VE Day, and seven years after that they gave us an extra day at Whitsun to celebrate the Queen's golden jubilee.
John