On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <allb...@ece.cmu.edu> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 7/15/10 12:21 , Mark J. Reed wrote: >> By analogy, I'd say week-of-year should work as well. > > Wasn't the week stuff punted to a non-core module because there are too many > differences in how it's handled (week starts on Sunday in the US and Israel > and Monday elsewhere, differing notions of what "first week of the year" > means, etc.)
I had the same thought but as Mark pointed out, there is an ISO standard for numbering weeks within a year, which is also implemented by Unix-y systems. So that portion is defensible. -y