On 4 May 2011, at 3:03 PM, John Layt wrote: > Hi, > > I'm implementing support for US week numbers, but there's conflicting > information on the great interweb tubes as to what the standard is. > > Some sources say the US Standard is Week 1 is from Jan 1 to the first > Saturday > of the year (which may be less than 7 days) then each following week starts > from Sunday. > > Other sources say Week 1 starts on the first Sunday in the year, with the > days > preceeding it being labelled either Week 0 or the last week of the previous > year. > > Finally there's some suggestion the US military uses simple week numbering, > i.e. week 1 starts on Jan 1 and lasts 7 days, with each week following in > order. > > All 3 may even be in regular use and so all will require support. > > A lot of this confusion seems to stem from our dear friends in Redmond who's > aversion to standards leaves them equally unable to correctly implement the > US > Week as the ISO Week. > > Beatings with the clue-stick gratefully received. > > John. >
<ducking and bowing out of the whole "USian vs. American" discussion....> John, While I'm odd and view the week as starting on Monday (don't ask, don't want a debate on my views...) the common perception in the US is that the first full week of January is week 1. -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. =============================================================== Developer and Project Lead for the AltimatOS open source project Volunteer Developer for the KDE open source project See http://www.altimatos.com/ and http://www.kde.org/ for more information =============================================================== Please avoid sending me MS Office attachments.
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