;Hongkong
;Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
;Official languages: Chinese, English
;Time zone: (UTC+8)

;YOU NEED MovingOperation_LUX, _LU2, _NLD, _NL2, _NL3
;For a syntax description see PTBSync Help!
;If you find an error please contact: dewaelheyns(a)gmail.com

LANGUAGE=UTF8
IMAGE=Holiday_Hongkong.gif
COMMENT=Updated 9 august 2016 \nThe date of the Chinese calendar holidays may deviate ±1 day only in case that the moon observation deviates from the moon calculation
;International days (English) >http://users.telenet.be/wdew/files.htm

TYP=Holy
;12 of the 17 public holidays are compulsory for employers to give to the employees (Statutory holidays)
;According to Hong Kong laws, when a designated public holiday falls on a Sunday or on the same day of another holiday, the immediate following weekday would be a public holiday. However, there are exceptions; for example, as Lunar New Year 2007 falls on a Sunday (February 18th), the government have designated the Saturday directly before (February 17th) as a public holiday. However, this does not apply to Saturdays, and when a non-statutory public holiday falls on a Saturday, the public holiday is lost to people that do not work on Saturdays.
;In general, if a statutory holiday falls on the employee's rest day, the employer is committed to giving a day off-in-lieu at a following day which isn't the employee's rest day. For example, under the 5-day work week system, if a statutory holiday falls on a Saturday, the employee can be entitled to a day off-in-lieu. This is not true for non-statutory public holidays which are lost to people that do not work on Saturday.

01.1.*LUX         =1st day of January                 ;Note=if Sunday >Monday
21.1.+1Nm*NLD     =Lunar New Year's Day (±1 day)      ;Note=if Sunday >day preceding Lunar New Year's Day (Saturday)
21.1.+1Nm+1Dy*NL2 =2nd day of Lunar New Year (±1 day) ;Note=if Sunday >day preceding Lunar New Year's Day (=Friday)
21.1.+1Nm+2Dy*NL3 =3th day of Lunar New Year (±1 day) ;Note=if Sunday >day preceding Lunar New Year's Day (=Thursday)
28.2.+36Dy*LUX    =Ching Ming Festival (±1 day)       ;Note=if Sunday >following day (=Monday) ;English=Tomb Sweeping Day
01.5.*LUX>1997    =Labour Day/first day of May        ;Note=if Sunday >Monday, 1st 1998
;Dragon Boat Festival (Tuen Ng Festival) ;Note=5th day 5th Chinese month
01.7.*LUX>1996    =#1996th Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day ;Note=1st 1997, if Sunday >Monday {d}
24.8.+1Nm+15Dy*NLD =day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival (±1 day) ;Note=16th day 8th Chinese month, if Sunday >day of that Festival (=Saturday)
01.10.*LUX>1996   =National Day of the People's Republic of China ;Note=if Sunday >Monday, 1st 1997 {d}
23.9.+1Nm+8Dy*LUX =Chung Yeung Festival (±1 day)      ;Note=9th day 9th Chinese month, if Sunday >Monday {h}

;one-off
28.6.>1996<1998 =Handover Public Holiday ;Note=1997
29.6.>1996<1998 =Handover Public Holiday ;Note=1997
30.6.>1996<1998 =Handover Public Holiday ;Note=1997
01.7.>1996<1998 =Handover Public Holiday ;Note=1997
02.7.>1996<1998 =Handover Public Holiday ;Note=1997

02.10.>1996<1999 =The day following National Day ;Note=1997, 1998
06.4.>1998<2000  =day after Ching Ming           ;Note=1999, Ching Ming 1999 same date as Easter Monday
05.4.>2009<2011  =day after Ching Ming           ;Note=2010, Ching Ming 2010 same date as Easter Monday
02.10.>2011<2013 =The day following National Day ;Note=2012

03.9.>2014<2016 =additional General Holiday (GH) & Statutory Holiday (SH) ;Note=2015, 70th anniversary of the Chinese victory in World War II {n}

02.8.>2015<2017 =non-working public holiday/bank holiday ;Note=2016, expectation of cyclone Nida's passage {n}

;former Holidays
01.6.+2Mo<1997      =Queen's Birthday              ;Note=last 1996
31.8.-1Mo-1Sa<1997  =Victory Anniversary Day       ;Note=.>1996 Saturday before last Monday August, 1997 >Sino-Japanese War Victory Day (>3rd Monday August) {m}
01.8.+3Mo>1996<1999 =Sino-Japanese War Victory Day ;Note=1997>1998 3rd Monday August, before 1997 Victory Anniversary Day (Saturday before last Monday August) {m}
31.8.-1Mo>1944<1997 =#1944th Liberation Day        ;Note=1st 1945, >19.. August 30, last general holiday 1996 {m}

TYP=LOCAL
;The 17 public holidays, also called Bank Holidays, are set by the General Holidays Ordinance
;Public holidays that are not Statutory holidays

Es-2Dy =Good Friday
Es-1Dy =Holy Saturday ;Note=day following Good Friday
Es+1Dy =Easter Monday

21.4.+1Nm+7Dy*LUX>1997 =Buddha's Birthday (±1 day) ;Note=8th day 4th Chinese month, since 1998, if Sunday >Monday, general holiday not statutory holiday

21.12.     =Winter Solstice
;OR (either day can be chosen by employers)
25.12.*LU2 =Christmas Day ;Note=if Sunday >2nd weekday after Christmas day (=Tuesday 27th)

26.12.*LUX =first weekday following Christmas Day (Boxing Day)



TYP=Normal

;daylight saving time (DST) is not observed
;Hong Kong used DST beginning in 1948, but abandoned it from 1980 onwards.

Es         =Easter
04.4.>1930 =#1930th Children's Day*             ;Note=1st 1931 {d}
01.5.+2Su  =Mother's Day
01.6.+3Su  =Father's Day
31.8.-1Mo>1996 =#1944th Liberation Day          ;Note=1st 1945, no longer a general holiday as of 1997 {m}
28.9.>1951<1997 =Teachers' Day ;Note={d-09-10}
10.9.>1996      =Teachers' Day ;Note={d}
31.10.>2000 =#2000th Trick or Treat for UNICEF* ;Note=introduced in Hong Kong in 2001 {d}
11.11.-3Dy+1Su =Remembrance Sunday              ;Note=Sunday closest to Nov. 11 {m}

21.1.+1Nm+14Dy =Yuen Siu Festival #-2698 (±1 day moon observation)   ;Note=Lantern Festival, 15th day 1st Chinese lunar month #-2698 {h}
24.6.+1Nm+12Dy =Lu Pan Day (±1 day)                                  ;Note=13th day 6th Chinese lunar month #-2698 {h}
24.8.+1Nm+14Dy =Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon Festival) (±1 day) ;Note=15th day 8th Chinese month #-2698 {h}


;The PTBSync holiday files are maintained by dewaelheyns(a)gmail.com
;On http://users.telenet.be/wdew/ you find a library of additional files for PTBSync
;The abbreviations {d} {m} {e} {y} ... are explained on http://users.telenet.be/wdew/Basis%20PTB/BasisEN.htm
;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_holidays_by_country#Hong_Kong
;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Hong_Kong
;http://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/holiday/index.htm
;http://www.qppstudio.net/national-news-digests/hong_kong-public-holidays.htm

;09.1.2010, Hong Kong lawmaker, Chan Kam-lam, has announced that he would move a Legislative Council motion next Wednesday demanding that the Hong Kong SAR government make Confucius' Birthday a new annual public holiday
;15.2.2010, Hong Kong's Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, has announced that he would discuss the need for a review of days-in-lieu for public holidays, with Labour and Welfare Secretary, Matthew Cheung
;30.3.2010, Leung Tak-wah, the Vice-chairman of Hong Kong's Taoist Association has announced that, next week, he will petition the HKSAR government to declare Laozi's birthday a statutory public holiday in Hong Kong