More importantly, it's already in the spec!  All I proposed was an
alias to an existing attribute name.  If it gets dropped out of core,
that's fine, too.  But I'd like to see the longer name available, in
whatever module it shows up in...


On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:36 PM, yary <not....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
> <allb...@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
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>> On 7/15/10 12:21 , Mark J. Reed wrote:
>>> By analogy, I'd say week-of-year should work as well.
>>
>> Wasn't the week stuff punted to a non-core module because there are too many
>> differences in how it's handled (week starts on Sunday in the US and Israel
>> and Monday elsewhere, differing notions of what "first week of the year"
>> means, etc.)
>
> I had the same thought but as Mark pointed out, there is an ISO
> standard for numbering weeks within a year, which is also implemented
> by Unix-y systems. So that portion is defensible.
>
> -y
>



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