[Dhis2-users] Non-standard weeks?

2013-06-14 Thread Knut Staring
Hello, Is it possible to use DHIS2 with weeks that start on Wednesdays? There is full flexibility in how one defines periods with start and end date in the database, but would the overall logic of the system handle this? -- Knut Staring Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo +4791880522

Re: [Dhis2-users] Non-standard weeks?

2013-06-14 Thread Jason Pickering
There have been similar requests previously. See the archives. It is currently not possible as all weeks are define as ISO standard weeks. --Sent from my mobile On Jun 14, 2013 5:49 PM, Knut Staring knu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Is it possible to use DHIS2 with weeks that start on

Re: [Dhis2-users] Define week start day for Weekly periods

2013-06-14 Thread Knut Staring
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

Re: [Dhis2-users] Define week start day for Weekly periods

2013-06-14 Thread Knut Staring
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

Re: [Dhis2-users] Define week start day for Weekly periods

2013-06-14 Thread Knut Staring
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

Re: [Dhis2-users] Define week start day for Weekly periods

2013-06-14 Thread Knut Staring
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