World Holidays for Chaos Data
Our Chaos Intellect and Time & Chaos software is capable of adding data from other sources online that offer holiday information
to provide you the option to add that source's collated info to your own calendar.
Our Chaos programs support two popular file types for transferring and adding calendar data to the calendar databases in these programs.
iCal .ics files
One popular format which is also the easiest to add to your Chaos data files is iCal or vCal file (usually with an extension of .ics or .vcs).
Sometimes web sites with calendar data might list this as a CAL feed that you can sync with, but the sync URL is usually a file you can download
and save to your computer also. Once you download an .ics or .vcs file to your computer, this file can be double-clicked on to add
all the appointments directly into the current calendar database in Chaos Intellect or Time & Chaos.
Comma Separated Value .csv files
If you find a .csv option to download a comma separated value text file (these steps can also work with an Excel .xls file), there is an
Import Wizard in Chaos Intellect and Time & Chaos to bring in the data. There are more steps involved (which is why the iCal format
would be preferred).
In Chaos Intellect or Time & Chaos, go to File and Import to open the Import Wizard. Choose Appointments, then find the file you downloaded.
The final page will have a matching game of sorts where you need to select the field from the CSV file for the Date and the Description.
Holidays would likely not use other fields like start time and end time since they are all-day events.
Recommended sources
One site that has been suggested to us from other users with US Federal Holidays is
https://www.federalpay.org/holidays .
Helpful Hint!
Please Note: we would also suggest making a backup of your data files using the Backup option on the File menu BEFORE you try importing
data the first time. That way, if something happens that you don't expect, you can restore the backup from five minutes ago and try again.