Many brits knew when the extra holiday was but maybe did not know the usual one was cancelled. I have read various stories about people booking hotels for a long weekend away only to later realise they would need a day of leave to do this.
MS had more than 18 months warning about this but took a huge amount of time to deliver anything resembling a fix, and to this day have not published any details about this (the details for sp1 don't even mention this was broken, let alone that it was fixed).
The bigger issue was that the errors were not just about one little island taking a day off, but about at least 23 countries having incorrect holidays for basic tings like Easter as well. And MS still have not bothered to fix all the missing Bank Holidays around Christmas and New Year (when the normal date falls on a weekend).
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Many brits knew when the extra holiday was but maybe did not know the usual one was cancelled. I have read various stories about people booking hotels for a long weekend away only to later realise they would need a day of leave to do this. MS had more than 18 months warning about this but took a huge amount of time to deliver anything resembling a fix, and to this day have not published any details about this (the details for sp1 don't even mention this was broken, let alone that it was fixed). The bigger issue was that the errors were not just about one little island taking a day off, but about at least 23 countries having incorrect holidays for basic tings like Easter as well. And MS still have not bothered to fix all the missing Bank Holidays around Christmas and New Year (when the normal date falls on a weekend).