[YLUG] ISO week numbers

Fufu Fang ff555 at york.ac.uk
Thu Feb 2 15:47:51 UTC 2012


Shall we all agree that ISO date is unusable for human?
Fufu

On 2 February 2012 13:53, Steve Almond <steve at silkandslug.com> wrote:

>  Made a boo boo on one of our tangents. ISO 8601 says that week #1 is the
> week that contains the first Thursday of the year. If that Thursday is the
> 5th, 6th, or 7th, then the 1st, 2nd, and/or third will be in week #52 (or
> #53) of the previous year. The same day cannot be in two different weeks in
> two different years.
>
> That's ISO/Europe. If you're in USA or Canada, it can!
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-day_week#Week_numbering
>
>
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>
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