Comment by jasonkester

Found you a fun edge case in France: your tool doesn’t know how to faire le pont.

Holidays here often land on a Thursday. It’s generally agreed to not be worth the effort to get back into work mode for just one day, so everybody takes Friday off too. (Thus, “making the bridge)

This doesn’t count against your vacation time. Even schools take the days off. Holidays seem to be scheduled this way intentionally, and sometimes they’ll even have one on a Wednesday.