Re: converting a specified year and week into a date

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On 02/14/07 03:33, A. Kretschmer wrote:
> am Wed, dem 14.02.2007, um 3:10:17 -0600 mailte Ron Johnson folgendes:
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>> On 02/14/07 02:52, A. Kretschmer wrote:
>>> am Tue, dem 13.02.2007, um 13:56:15 -0800 mailte vanessa folgendes:
>> [snip]
>>> test=*# select get_week(2007,2);
>>> get_week
>>> -------------------------
>>> 08-01-2007 - 14-01-2007
>>> (1 row)
>> Is that week #2?
>>
>> If weeks start on Sunday (which is what they do in the US), then
>> week #2 would either start on 04-Jan or 11-Jan (depending on whether
>> the 01-Jan partial week is considered week #1 or week #0).
>
> Depends, there are different definitions. I have a calendar here and in
> this the 2. week 2007 starts on monday, 08-01-2007.

Brown paper bag time: I was looking at the February calendar and
"seeing" January...

> It's like with http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/isowdcal.html, but i
> know, in america weeks starts with sunday.

Interesting web site.

The ISO 8601 rule is: The first week of the year is the
week containing the first Thursday.

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