Re: Week Numbering

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From: Keld J|rn Simonsen
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:15

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tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes:

>In article <1992Dec18.105632.2494@odin.diku.dk> torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen) writes:
>   >Is there an international standard for numbering weeks.

Yes, the standard is ISO 8601.

>It is interesting to note that ANSI C and POSIX strftime(3) uses the
>wrong week numbering algorithm, at least according to its manual page
>in HP-UX, which says:

There will be new formatters in POSIX to comply with ISO 8601.
The old behaviour is reatined with existing formatters.

Keld Simonsen

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