Add days after date is selected excluding weekends and holidays

Question

I have two text fields. In the first textfield I have added a calendar using jQueryUI Datepicker. When the user selects the date from the datepicker, it should automatically

Answer 1

When dealing with holidays, there's really only one option: one day at a time. You should iterate, one day at a time, and add/substract as needed if a day "counts". In pseudo code:

date add(date startDate, int daysToAdd) {
    int i:=0
    endDate:=startDate
    while (i

isWeekend() is trivial to implement; isHoliday(), on the other hand, is a very tough nut to crack. The easiest way to deal with it is to have a table of known holidays and check if the date passed as parameter coincides with any of those. In my opinion, it's better to have a rule-based method that can compute whether a given date is a holiday or not.

Disclaimer: I copied and pasted this from a previous answer of mine to the same question. See How to ignore weekends and holidays in boost date time?