Will have to investigate and get back to you Sent from my mobile On Jun 14, 2013 6:06 PM, "Bob Jolliffe" <bobjolli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> how do they determine which day is day 1 of week 1? > > > On 14 June 2013 17:52, Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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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