HP proposal - minor bug in bug
Moderator, John Quarterman
std-unix at ut-sally.UUCP
Sun Jan 18 10:37:47 AEST 1987
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 at relay.cs.net
>Date: Wed, 24 Dec 86 10:08:01 EST
>
>> From: colonel%buffalo.csnet at 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
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