Holiday

A Holiday is an object you configure to specify a day, part of day, or set of days to provide system and access control variations to scheduled events and to the usual lock and unlock times.

Figure 1. The Holiday module

A Holiday specifies a time period during which an Active Schedule is treated specially. Typically, normally scheduled events and access do not occur on a Holiday.

You can create a Holiday called New Year’s Day, and configure it to occur once per year on the same date.
  • You configure a 'Daily' Schedule as Active every day from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
  • You configure a Holiday called New Years Day as the first day of January every year, and include it in a Holiday Group that is downloaded to your controllers.
  • You configure the Schedule to respect the Holiday Group that includes New Years Day.
  • Consequently, on January 1, the 'Daily' Schedule is treated as Inactive.
  • As a result, a Person with a Clearance that uses that Schedule is unable to gain access on that day.

Holidays can be configured as partial days, can span multiple days, or can recur on various intervals (“every Friday”, “Second Monday of every month”, “January 1 to January 4”…). The typical holiday is a single 24-hour day.

You can define the following holiday types:
Non-recurring
A holiday that starts on a particular date and time and ends on a particular date and time (day, month, year, hour, minute).
Monthly/Yearly
A holiday that occurs once per year or in selected months, either on a specific date or a relative date (the second weekend of July).
Weekly
A holiday that occurs on a specific day or days every week.

For more information about holidays, and their interactions with schedules, refer to the C•CURE 9000 Software Configuration Guide.