# Is today a holiday where you are? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 27, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724 "2016-12-27T19:26:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/1 "2016-12-27T19:26:33Z")
Today is a holiday in Canada, (Christmas was on a Sunday, so you get Monday off, but Monday was Boxing Day so you get Tuesday off!), but I’m wondering about other places around the world. How about it? You still off work? ---
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/2 "2016-12-27T19:41:19Z")
Boxing day isn’t a stat holiday in all of Canada. Unless you work for a bank or another federally regulated business, it is not a stat holiday in any province other than Ontario, IIRC. I think it’s balanced out by Ontario not getting remembrance day as a stat. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/3 "2016-12-27T19:44:59Z")
So…not a holiday for you? (I thought everyone got Boxing Day, silly me!) ---
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/4 "2016-12-27T19:53:32Z")
Nope, I’m back at work today. Well, I’m physically in the office. Close enough. In the past I’ve gotten boxing day as a stat, as I was working at a company that did inter-provincial shipping, so we were bound by federal laws. These days I’m not, so it’s just the Christmas stat and a three day weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/5 "2016-12-27T20:08:08Z")
I don’t recall if it’s on our list of US public holidays. But my company essentially shuts down between Christmas and New Years. I’m on vacation until 6 January, but only had to take three vacation days to pull that off. I am a little surprised by that, actually. We are a Silicon Valley based tech company. I’m not sure if that is normal. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/6 "2016-12-27T20:09:20Z")
no national holiday in the US, but my company takes the entire week off. I don’t go back to work until Jan. 3. ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/7 "2016-12-27T20:12:49Z")
Yes. Christmas and Boxing Day are both public holidays in South Africa. If Sunday is a public holiday then the Monday is also a holiday, but the law doesn’t account for the case where the Monday is already a holiday. At the behest of the trade unions, the government proclaimed today to be an extra holiday so that workers won’t be deprived of a day off. (My office shuts down for this period anyway, so it doesn’t actually matter to me.) ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/8 "2016-12-27T20:14:18Z")
In Australia we get Christmas and Boxing Day off, so since Christmas was a Sunday this year, we got the Monday and Tuesday as public holidays. It’s now Wednesday here, so people are back at work. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/9 "2016-12-27T23:20:27Z")
I work for a university and we’re closed through New Years day. I believe today is a paid holiday, but we need to use our PTO for two days this week. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/10 "2016-12-28T14:47:36Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > In Australia we get Christmas and Boxing Day off, so since Christmas was a Sunday this year, we got the Monday and Tuesday as public holidays. It’s now Wednesday here, so people are back at work. Same thing in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/11 "2016-12-28T20:22:58Z")
I work for the State of Wisconsin, and December 26th was a holiday this year. Normally December 24 and 25 are holidays, but since they fell on Saturday and Sunday this year, rather than give state employees _two_ floating holidays, they assigned one holiday to the 26th and gave us the one floater. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/12 "2016-12-30T18:02:54Z")
How about this Monday, January 2? I know my home health care person is off and I don’t think there is mail. Is anyone else getting it off as comp time for January 1? ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/13 "2016-12-30T18:58:40Z")
Yes, here in Ontario, it’s also a holiday! ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/14 "2016-12-30T19:00:39Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > How about this Monday, January 2? I know my home health care person is off and I don’t think there is mail. Is anyone else getting it off as comp time for January 1? Financial markets are closed on the 2nd of January, just as they were on the 26th of December. I’m off for both. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/15 "2016-12-31T15:03:06Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > How about this Monday, January 2? I know my home health care person is off and I don’t think there is mail. Is anyone else getting it off as comp time for January 1? Yep – it’s a Bank Holiday here in the UK. I’m not entirely sure when I actually physically have to be back in the office this month, to be honest. There’s a meeting on the 11th and classes start on the 16th (or maybe the 17th), but I think everything else I have on tap can be faffed from home. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/16 "2016-12-31T15:09:14Z")
Boxing day was also a holiday in Quebec, so Dec. 27 was a day off this year. The post office was also shut until Wed. Jan. 2 will be off as comp for Jan. 1, but business as usual Jan. 3. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/17 "2016-12-31T15:39:04Z")
Schools are out here from last Monday until tomorrow because of Hanukkah. Us grownups still have to work. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/18 "2017-01-01T01:50:53Z")
Boxing Day is not an official holiday in the USA. We had that day off this year–and Friday, December 23rd. (Both called Winter Holidays.) When July 4th falls on a weekend, we do _not_ get an extra day off–but pulling that stunt at Christmas would not work. Kids off from school, etc. Lots of people took PTO off, as well. We get New Years Day off–but not New Years Eve. With New Years Day being Sunday this year, we get\* no\* day off. I think others in the city will be off on the 2nd–since Houston Metro will be running on a Sunday schedule… ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/19 "2017-01-01T03:11:26Z")
I never realized so many countries took boxing that seriously as to proclaim a national holiday. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/20 "2017-01-01T05:34:41Z")
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