Display holidays in UK/England for December/2012 and January/2013 (with week numbers)

gcal -K -q GB_EN December/2012-January/2013 # Holidays for Dec/2012 and Jan/2013 with week numbers
Display the holidays in December and January for UK/England (2012/2013). Most Linux distros have "gcal" in their package manager system. If not, it is available here: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcal
Sample Output 
# NB holiday days are shown in bold when you run this in bash.

    December 2012
 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa CW
                    1 48
  2  3  4  5  6  7  8 49
  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 50
 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 51
 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 52
 30 31                53/0

     January 2013
 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa CW
        1  2  3  4  5 53/0
  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 53/1
 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 02
 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 03
 27 28 29 30 31       04

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By: mpb
2012-11-07 18:01:31
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