Bank holiday Monday moved to a Friday

Not great news for calendar makers.


Last week, the government announced the bank holiday, set for Monday 4 May, would be switched to Friday 8 May, to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day.

Allan & Bertram said as a result about 400,000 of its calendars which had already been printed would have to have the May 2020 pages replaced.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48631198


"We're totally in agreement with changing the date. Just not changing it with 11 months notice, when you've had 74 years to prepare for this event,"

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Cannot 'they' leave anything alone?

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I can imagine the calendar makers being very unamused.

I would claim if I were one for loss of money.

Like they said, why only 11 months notice.

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Perhaps it's on May's last minute legacy list.

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Me too.

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All the calendar makers have to do is provide two small stickers with the calendars, one for the purchaser to amend the Monday BH , and one to add the BH to the Friday.

Simples!

Must be cheaper than re-running the whole page.

I'm sure people would understand and comply.

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Of course the government could have made it an extra bank holiday.

Re: Bank holiday Monday moved to a Friday

Never mind bank holidays, what they should do is change the spring daylight saving hours adjustment to 5pm on a Friday. They can do the winter one at 7am on a Monday.