Re: [bug-gawk] Manual glitch

[arnold]

Hi.

Thanks. I have slightly improved the description in the manual and will
push the change up the repo shortly.

Arnold


Michel de Ruiter <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I read in the manual:
>
> "determining the week number is as specified by ISO 8601. (To wit: if
> the week containing January 1 has four or more days in the new year,
> then it is week one; otherwise it is week 53 of the previous year and
> the next week is week one.)"
>
> This is not completely true. In most cases it is not week 53 but week
> 52. It's just that it belongs to the *last* week of the previous year.
> Yes, ISO weeks can belong to the previous or next year.
>
> Shorter ways to summarize the ISO 8601 week number:
> - week 1 is the first week containing 4 or more days of the year
> - week 1 is the week containing the first Thursday
> - week 1 is the week containing January 4th
>
> ISO weeks start on Monday.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Groente, Michel.