Explain the Cambodian calendar a bit more. I am sure there is more to it than when the weeks start. Or is that it?
On 14 June 2013 17:35, Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Jason and Bob. > > Unfortunately, this seems to be a pressing requirement in several countries > > I think one simplification that could be justified would be to have only > one week type in one DHIS2 instance. Thus, the exact meaning of 2012W25 is > defined by looking at the FIRSTDAYOFWEEK setting in the particular db > (which probably should be displayed on the About DHIS 2 page. > > Of course, that does not solve interoperability issues (but rather it > deteriorate through obfuscation), but I think it is reasonable to think > that everyone in Cambodia uses weeks starting on Wednesdays. > > > > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolli...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Weeks are as we all know something of a headache. What we have defined >> currently in DHIS2, as Jason points out, is the ISO standard week, which >> even itself is something of a headache. >> >> I suspect that to incorporate all the variety which is called for >> (Wednesday week starts is the most exotic I've seen to date! But there are >> also Islamic calendar issues, Ethiopian/Amharic calendar, Monday vs Sunday >> starts etc) we might need to zoom right out to define a generic repeating >> period with rules around starting and stopping. But it could get quite >> complicated. Two immediate issues which come to mind >> (i) we need a string representation of periods. So 2010W23 has a >> particular meaning in terms of the ISO week number. How to differentiate >> this from a week which starts on a Wednesday (and which day of the year >> would be day 1 of week 1?); >> (ii) how to aggregate along the time axis ie, weeks->months->years >> >> Its something which needs to be done, but I am not at all clear what the >> correct design approach would be. Would be interested to hear people's >> thoughts. >> >> Bob >> >> >> On 14 June 2013 17:12, Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Devs: Is this something which could be targeted for 2.13? >>> >>> Knut >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Jason Pickering < >>> jason.p.picker...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Currently not. This has come up before, but for now, ISO weeks are what >>>> has been implemented. >>>> >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Jason >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Paulo Grácio < >>>> pgra...@criticalsoftware.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, **** >>>>> >>>>> ** ** >>>>> >>>>> Is there a way to define week start day for Weekly periods?**** >>>>> >>>>> ** ** >>>>> >>>>> Regards,**** >>>>> >>>>> Paulo Grácio**** >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>>>> Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net >>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>>> Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Knut Staring >>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo >>> +4791880522 >>> http://dhis2.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>> Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Knut Staring > Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo > +4791880522 > http://dhis2.org >
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