Re: applescript-users digest, Vol 3 #102 - 14 msgs
Re: applescript-users digest, Vol 3 #102 - 14 msgs
- Subject: Re: applescript-users digest, Vol 3 #102 - 14 msgs
- From: Ed Stockly <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 14:50:31 -0800
on 2/2/02 11:48 AM, email@hidden at
email@hidden wrote:
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Subject: Re: Week of year - odd/even week
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From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
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To: Applescript-Users <email@hidden>
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On 2/2/02 9:33 AM, "John W Baxter" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Sorry, I no longer have the message to quote. Someone asked about the ISO
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> standard which describes week numbers. (I must admit I was surprised:
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> week 1 is the first week of the year which contains Thursday
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> [THURSDAY??...sounds like the output of a committee].)
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Just guessing:
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Since Jan. 1 is a holiday in almost every country<snip>
Hmmm, a number of cultures don't celebrate new year's on January 1 the way
most of the western world does.
Another guess...
There are 7 days in a week. If weeks start on Monday then the first week of
a year with a Thursday will have more than half the week (four days) in the
new year.
ES
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