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- From: tt@tarzan.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Week Numbering
- Message-ID: <TT.92Dec21082707@tarzan.jyu.fi>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 06:27:07 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.000103.29489@nmpd.oz.au> <1992Dec18.105632.2494@odin.diku.dk>
- <TML.92Dec18161133@tiuhti.tik.vtt.fi> <keld.724695337@login.dkuug.dk>
- <1992Dec20.193234.8589@ruc.dk>
- Sender: news@jyu.fi (News articles)
- Organization: University of Jyvaskyla
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- In-Reply-To: plate@ruc.dk's message of 20 Dec 92 19: 32:34 GMT
- Originator: tt@tarzan.math.jyu.fi
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- In article <1992Dec20.193234.8589@ruc.dk> plate@ruc.dk (John Plate) writes:
-
- >In Europe (?) the first week of a year is the week that has more than
- >3 days in it. Weeks goes from monday to sunday.
-
- That's what the ISO standard says, in fact. Whether anybody outside
- Europe knows or cares is another matter.
-
- >If a year starts with a week with less than 4 days, it is week 53 of
- >the previous year.
-
- This is not, however, quite correct: it can also be week 52 of the
- previous year. (Let's think ... it happens when the year begins on
- a Sunday, or on a Saturday following a non-leap year, right?)
- --
- Tapani Tarvainen (tt@math.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
-