Week of Year

Subject: Week of Year
From: "Peter Ring, PRC" <prc -at- PIP -dot- DKNET -dot- DK>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:23:01 +1

On 19 Mar 1996 Gary Cheski wrote:

>Is there a standard way of determining which is the first calendar week
>(Sunday to Saturday) of the year, or is it just up to the individual? I have
>seen calendars where January 1st falls on a Friday, but that week is
>considered to be the last week of the previous year. For a different year,
>January 1st was on a Tuesday, and this was considered the first
>week.



Unfortunately there are no fixed international standard, and
different countries have different week-numbers. In the European
Union the standard is as follow:
1. A week goes from Monday to Sunday.
2. Week 1 is the week with the first Thursday of a year.

Helen Hegelheimer didn't find it suitable for the list. That's true
if nobody on the list does any international contracting. For those
of us who do international contracting, different week numbers for
the same week can be a trap. So maybe it belongs here anyway.


Greetings from Denmark

Peter Ring
PRC - specialist in user frindly manuals and quality measurements on manuals
prc -at- pip -dot- dknet -dot- dk
http://www.pip.dknet.dk/~pip323/index.htm


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