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Re: r31696 -[S32/Temporal] Permit day-of-month on Dates.

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From:
yary
Date:
July 15, 2010 14:37
Subject:
Re: r31696 -[S32/Temporal] Permit day-of-month on Dates.
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
<allbery@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
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> On 7/15/10 12:21 , Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> By analogy, I'd say week-of-year should work as well.
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> Wasn't the week stuff punted to a non-core module because there are too many
> differences in how it's handled (week starts on Sunday in the US and Israel
> and Monday elsewhere, differing notions of what "first week of the year"
> means, etc.)

I had the same thought but as Mark pointed out, there is an ISO
standard for numbering weeks within a year, which is also implemented
by Unix-y systems. So that portion is defensible.

-y

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