Re: Week of year - odd/even week
Re: Week of year - odd/even week
- Subject: Re: Week of year - odd/even week
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 21:17:35 +1100
On 2/2/02 4:24 AM +1000, Emmanuel, email@hidden, wrote:
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At 2:11 PM +0100 1/2/02, Nigel Garvey wrote:
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> (If, like me, you think a week starts on a Sunday, change the date in the
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> fourth line to 5th January 1000.)
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Are you saying that Sunday is the first day of the week according to the
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ISO standard?
I suspect he's expressing a personal preference. The ISO standard says
Monday.
This creates all sorts of problems in things like planners/diaries. A
typical one will be week-to-view -- each week is laid out on a spread,
usually accompanied by small monthly calendars of the current month, the one
before, and the one after.
So in a typical US one (and many others) you will see that the months are
made up as if Sunday is the first day of the week, but the pages with made
up beginning with Monday, with Saturday and Sunday sharing the same space as
a other days.
The question becomes, what week number do you put on such a spread...
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden