HP proposal - minor bug in bug

Moderator, John Quarterman std-unix at ut-sally.UUCP
Thu Jan 8 09:29:25 AEST 1987


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!  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.

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