A holiday declared by decree rather than fixed by statute — announced, and unpredictable.
A proclaimed holiday is created by an executive act — a royal proclamation, a presidential decree, a cabinet order — rather than by a standing statute. It may be a one-off for a national event, or an annually-declared date that no rule predicts.
These are the hardest days in the corpus. A rule-based holiday can be computed years ahead; a proclaimed one cannot be known until it is announced, and the announcement may come weeks before or, occasionally, days.
The corpus carries 246 rules of this kind and marks their dates as announced rather than exact. It is the honest state: the date is real and it was not derivable.
Each of these is set by decree each year rather than by a standing rule, so the date is announced rather than computed.
| 🇳🇵 | Monday 11 January 2027Nepal | Prithvi JayantiDeclared rather than derived from a standing rule. |
| 🇱🇰 | Friday 22 January 2027Sri Lanka | Duruthu Full Moon Poya DaySri Lanka observes a Poya day each lunar month, declared annually. |
A statutory holiday stands until the statute changes. A proclaimed one may exist for a single year and needs re-retrieving.
Proclaimed describes how the holiday was created. Announced is the precision value recording that the date could not be computed.
See also statutory holiday · public holiday · precision · observance
We hold this as rule_type: manual_decree — 246 rules — with precision: announced. See what we hold.