Er þetta frídagur?
Hálfur frídagur: vinnutími er styttur.
Árið 2032 er hann föstudagur, sem er virkur dagur.
Föst dagsetning: hann er á sama degi ársins á hverju ári (24. des.).
Laugardagur og sunnudagur · Almennur frídagur þýðir ekki alltaf að öll fyrirtæki loki. Nauðsynleg þjónusta, verslanir og sumar atvinnugreinar starfa áfram, og reglur um laun eru mismunandi eftir löndum og samningum.
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve is the day and evening before Christmas. In much of Central, Eastern and Northern Europe it is the main event of the season rather than a prelude, with the family dinner, gift exchange and often a church service all taking place on the night of 24 December. Well-known examples include Wigilia in Poland, Štědrý den in the Czech Republic, Štedrý deň in Slovakia, Kūčios in Lithuania and the Christmas Eve celebrations of Finland and Estonia, where a Christmas figure visits children that evening. It is often the day when families gather, travel home and prepare the festive table, so it is one of the busiest travel days of the year in countries that observe it.
The religious background lies in the old way of counting a liturgical day from sunset, inherited from Jewish practice, so that a feast begins on the evening before. In many traditions the evening meal is meatless. In Poland the Wigilia supper begins when the first star appears, opens with the sharing of a thin wafer called opłatek, and often includes a place left empty at the table; carp is a common main dish, and some families serve twelve dishes. Public holiday status, where it exists, usually applies to the whole day, although some employers and shops allow work only until the afternoon.
Christmas Eve: all countries