For my purposes, that's really all I know, and for my requirements it will be exactly parallel to countries that require Monday instead of Sunday.
But certainly the Nepali, Ethiopian and several others have more complex requirements, which I think partly must be treated as separate cases. On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > > -- Knut Staring Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo +4791880522 http://dhis2.org
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