> The locale doesn’t contain enough information to calculate calendar > weeks: > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap07.html
Well, our locales do I think. > There’s neither a data field for the first day of the week, nor one > for > the various ways to calculate a calendar week. But there are, for instance: michael@feivel:~$ locale -kc week-1stweek LC_TIME week-1stweek=1 > In the end I just need a reliable way to get at German (= ISO) > calendar weeks, for use in business environments, and found that, > rather than having to write code myself, I could use OpenBSD’s cal, > which has an option for specifically this (although only for years > 1753‥9999, same as ncal). I haven't seen any error in ncal so far, but if you see some it might be more helpful to report and/or fix those as ncal should not show incorrect data. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL
