std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) (01/08/87)
From: colonel%buffalo.csnet@relay.cs.net Date: Wed, 24 Dec 86 10:08:01 EST > From: colonel%buffalo.csnet@relay.cs.net > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 86 12:29:00 EST > > 2. If the year begins on Saturday and ends on Monday, it will have 54 > weeks. Obviously they cannot be numbered 00 to 52! Come to think of it, that would be a rather long year! But my point is valid if the year ends on the last day of the week (whatever day that is), and begins on the first day of the week. It might help to know what this feature would be used for. Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 6
std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) (01/18/87)
From: seismo!enea!chalmers.UUCP!bergsten Date: Wed, 14 Jan 87 00:23:41 -0100 Organization: Dept. of CS, Chalmers, Sweden >From: colonel%buffalo.csnet@relay.cs.net >Date: Wed, 24 Dec 86 10:08:01 EST > >> From: colonel%buffalo.csnet@relay.cs.net >> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 86 12:29:00 EST >> >> 2. If the year begins on Saturday and ends on Monday, it will have 54 >> weeks. Obviously they cannot be numbered 00 to 52! > >Come to think of it, that would be a rather long year! ........ My pocket calendar states that according to swedish standard (which it claims was derived from ISO rules and formally accepted 1972): " .... Monday is regarded as the first day of the week, and the first week which has at least four days of the new year is week 1 ..." Apparently some international committee decided on how to number weeks 15 years ago!! It takes some courage to produce and publish a standard document when you know that at any time somebody may stumble on proud words of days past. Keep up the good work!! Regards, Per Bergsten ...!mcvax!enea!chalmers!bergsten.UUCP Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 22