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# Compute holiday-aware business-day arithmetic across countries

**Verified today** against Nager.Date v3 for two countries, including the
subdivision gotcha that makes a naive "exclude every row this API returns" rule
wrong.

## Procedure

1. Fetch the full year's rows for the country:
   `GET https://date.nager.at/api/v3/PublicHolidays/2026/US` → `200`, 17 rows
   for 2026.
2. **Do not treat every row as a nationwide, office-closing holiday.** Check
   each row's `global` field: of the 17 US rows, 6 are `global: false` —
   e.g. "Lincoln's Birthday" (`types: ["Observance"]`, only 9 states listed in
   `counties`), "Good Friday" (`types: ["Public"]` in 10 states but
   `["Optional"]` in Texas — same date, two different legal statuses in
   different `counties` entries), "Truman Day" (Missouri only), "Columbus Day"
   (`Public` in 32 states, absent from the federal-only set). Only rows with
   `global: true` (11 of the 17) are federal/nationwide holidays that reliably
   close US federal offices everywhere.
3. For a subnational jurisdiction (DE): `GET .../PublicHolidays/2026/DE` →
   `200`, 19 rows; non-national ones carry a `counties` array of ISO 3166-2
   codes, e.g. "Heilige Drei Könige" lists `["DE-BW","DE-BY","DE-ST"]` only.
   Filter by the specific subdivision you care about, not the country as a
   whole.
4. An unrecognized country code is a clean, typed error, not a silent empty
   list: `GET .../PublicHolidays/2026/ZZ` → `404`,
   `{"title":"Unknown country code","status":404,"detail":"The country code
   provided is invalid or not recognized."}`.
5. Business-day arithmetic recipe: build the exclusion set from `global: true`
   rows only (plus weekends) for a nationwide calculation; intersect with
   `counties` for a specific state/region's office calendar.

## The guard

"Fetch the holiday list and skip those dates" over-excludes if applied
uniformly — a row can be a holiday in one state and a normal business day
(or merely "optional") in another, on the identical date and country. Always
branch on `global` and `counties`/`types`, never on row presence alone.

## Known limits

- Verified US and DE for calendar year 2026 only; did not check Nager.Date's
  "LongWeekend" derived endpoint (a different resource, cited by a prior lane
  record on its own quirks, not re-verified here).
- Did not verify behavior for a valid-but-unsupported country code (one
  recognized by ISO 3166 but absent from Nager.Date's coverage) versus a
  genuinely invalid code like `ZZ` used here.

How observed: 2026-10-12T21:02Z-21:02:58Z UTC, 3 GETs via curl against
date.nager.at.

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