<h2>Holidays</h2><br/><div style="overflow-x:auto"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="generator" content="DITA-OT" /><meta name="DC.type" content="concept" /><meta name="DC.title" content="Holidays" /><meta name="abstract" content="You can define each individual holiday as a schedule entry to create exceptions to existing schedules." /><meta name="description" content="You can define each individual holiday as a schedule entry to create exceptions to existing schedules." /><meta name="DC.subject" content="Schedules, using" /><meta name="keywords" content="Schedules, using" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/time/concept/c_UseSchedules.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/general/concept/intro-now-platform-landing.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/general/concept/config-now-platform-core-features.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/time/time-configuration-landing.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/time/exploring-time-configuration.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/time/reference/r_DefaultSchedules.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/time/task/t_CreateAHolidaySchedMultiRegions.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/time/concept/c_ParentAndChildSchedules.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/time/task/t_DefineASchedule.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/time/task/t_FifthInstanceOfADayOfTheWeek.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/time/task/t_RepeatAMonthlySchedule.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/time/reference/r_CreateCalendarsWithSchedulePages.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/time/concept/domain-support-for-schedules.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="c_UseSchedules.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../task/t_DefineASchedule.html" /><meta name="DC.creator" content="ServiceNow" /><meta name="DC.date.created" content="2023-08-03" /><meta name="DC.date.modified" content="2025-01-30" /><meta name="DC.format" content="XHTML" /><meta name="DC.identifier" content="c_Holidays" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../CSS/commonltr.css" /><title>Holidays</title></head><body id="c_Holidays"> <div class="breadcrumb"><a class="link" href="../../../administer/general/concept/intro-now-platform-landing.html" title="As a platform administrator, you have the power of the Now Platform at your fingertips. The Now Platform is an application platform as a service that automates business processes across the enterprise.">Administer the Now Platform</a> > <a class="link" href="../../../administer/general/concept/config-now-platform-core-features.html" title="The Now Platform provides for a multitude of customization options to your applications. Customize your UI, handle user and data administration, and localize your instance for time zones, currencies, and more.">Configure Now Platform core features</a> > <a class="link" href="../../../administer/time/time-configuration-landing.html" title="A standard feature of the Now Platform, ServiceNow's time configuration system handles scheduling across your entire enterprise, enabling you to manage projects efficiently, track and schedule events, and more.">Time configuration</a> > <a class="link" href="../../../administer/time/exploring-time-configuration.html" title="Time configuration helps you easily handle any necessary timing or scheduling aspects of your online enterprise.">Exploring time configuration</a> > </div> <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Holidays</h1> <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">You can define each individual holiday as a schedule entry to create exceptions to existing schedules.</p> <p class="p">For instance, if an SLA requires an incident be resolved within three business days excluding Christmas, create a schedule entry for Christmas. Creating this entry ensures that the SLAs do not count Christmas when calculating elapsed time, even if it falls within the work week.</p> <div class="p">Because schedules can be included in other schedules through a parent-child relationship, it is also possible to create a holiday schedule and include it in other schedules to keep holidays consistent. The following example shows a holiday schedule.<div class="fig fignone" id="c_Holidays__fig_ScheduleUsHolidays"><span class="figcap"><span class="fig--title-label">Figure 1. </span>US Holidays</span> <img class="image" id="c_Holidays__image_ScheduleUSHolidays" width="700" src="../image/ScheduleUSHolidays.png" alt="" /> </div> </div> <div class="p">The following example shows a schedule that includes the preceding holiday schedule.<div class="fig fignone" id="c_Holidays__fig_ScheduleWithChildSchedule"><span class="figcap"><span class="fig--title-label">Figure 2. </span>Child Schedule</span> <img class="image" id="c_Holidays__image_ScheduleWithChildSchedule" width="700" src="../image/ScheduleWithChildSchedule.png" alt="" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="related-links"> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent Topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../../../administer/time/concept/c_UseSchedules.html" title="Use schedules to specify when service level agreements or inactivity monitors are active, or to specify when on-call rotations should take effect. Schedules are rules that include or exclude time for various actions or tasks.">Schedules</a></div> </div> <div class="linklist relinfo relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br /> <ul class="linklist"><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../../../administer/time/concept/c_ParentAndChildSchedules.html" title="Schedules can have one of two parent-child relationships with other schedules.">Parent and child schedules</a></li><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../../../administer/time/concept/domain-support-for-schedules.html" title="Domain separation is supported in schedules. Domain separation enables you to separate data, processes, and administrative tasks into logical groupings called domains. You can control several aspects of this separation, including which users can see and access data. Activate the Domain Support [com.glide.domain] plugin to enable the domain separation functionality for schedules.">Domain support and schedules</a></li><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="c_UseSchedules.html" title="Use schedules to specify when service level agreements or inactivity monitors are active, or to specify when on-call rotations should take effect. Schedules are rules that include or exclude time for various actions or tasks.">Schedules</a></li></ul></div> <div class="linklist relinfo reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br /> <ul class="linklist"><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../../../administer/time/task/t_CreateAHolidaySchedMultiRegions.html" title="You can create holiday schedules for multiple regions that follow the same work schedule but have different holidays.">Create a holiday schedule for multiple regions</a></li><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../../../administer/time/task/t_DefineASchedule.html" title="Configure schedules using schedule and schedule entry records.">Define a schedule</a></li><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../../../administer/time/task/t_FifthInstanceOfADayOfTheWeek.html" title="You can select a date that computes to the fifth instance of a weekday for a date near the end of a month for a repeating monthly schedule,">Schedule for the fifth instance of a week date</a></li><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../../../administer/time/task/t_RepeatAMonthlySchedule.html" title="Repeat a monthly schedule to reduce the amount of time required to define schedules and to provide consistency in scheduling.">Repeat a monthly schedule</a></li><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../task/t_DefineASchedule.html" title="Configure schedules using schedule and schedule entry records.">Define a schedule</a></li></ul></div> <div class="linklist relinfo relref"><strong>Related reference</strong><br /> <ul class="linklist"><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../../../administer/time/reference/r_DefaultSchedules.html" title="Default schedules are available in a base system.">Default schedules</a></li><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../../../administer/time/reference/r_CreateCalendarsWithSchedulePages.html" title="Specific applications within the Now Platform generate graphical calendar displays based on schedule pages.">Using schedules and calendars</a></li></ul></div> </div> </body></html></div>