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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Subject: Re: Week numbers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.180651.24840@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
- References: <Bz3nBs.3E3@cs.vu.nl> <1992Dec15.000536.15663@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1992Dec20.053505.8701@panix.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:06:51 GMT
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- patlee@panix.com (Patrick Lee) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec15.000536.15663@qiclab.scn.rain.com> Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org writes:
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- > > As I say, there's no standard. And since the years is 52 weeks and one
- > > day long (two days in leap years), you need to be ready to deal with week
- > > 53 occasionally.
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- >Funny, did someone crossposted this in comp.std.internat recently? The
- >same question was asked. According to keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn
- >Simonsen), the ISO standard on week numbering is 8601. The standard
- >basically says what has been posted already -- that the week containing
- >the first Thursday is week number 1.
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- Well, the outfit I was working for didn't use it...
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