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Statutory Holiday JSON

I would like to see JSON formatted statutory holiday data. I've found official NZ vacation days, but it was in HTML (https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/public-holidays).

having my application know what official holidays are. My payslip for my DHB job is the most complicated one I've ever encountered. I've cobbled together an understanding of how it all the tiny moving pieces work and encapsulated that into a web page for my colleagues so they don't have to suffer through that process. The last moving bit I want to fix is public holidays and I need this data. I can always put this directly into my code, but I can see how it would be more robust if I had a fixed JSON formatted data from a trusted source.

The above web page is authored by Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment. This information is public knowledge known well in advance (years, in fact), but it is not formatted for programmatic consumption.


Response from
Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

Data does not exist

As noted in a prior response, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment does not have, nor do we intend to create, a standalone .ics file of New Zealand national and local holidays. We do publish information about holidays on our Employment New Zealand website, at https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/ . If you have a request for information, we recommend that you email oia@mbie.govt.nz in the first instance. We can't guarantee that we have the information that you are looking for, but we will be able to directly respond to your data related requests.

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    I would like to have a nice set of holiday data to keep track of all the stats. Thanks.

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