Michael Meskes dixit: >Do you have any documentation about the US system that is kind of >official? I doubt anyone in the States uses week numbers, but there may >be an official way nonetheless.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woche#Berechnung_in_den_USA_und_vielen_anderen_L%C3%A4ndern so far, plus the fact that many tools show wrong week numbers for Europeans while Americans complain about wrong week numbers in other tools. Also as an example: $ kwal -mw 1 2005 January 2005 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 [53] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [ 1] 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [ 2] 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 [ 3] 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 [ 4] 31 [ 5] $ kwal -w 1 2005 January 2005 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 [ 1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [ 2] 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [ 3] 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 [ 4] 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 [ 5] 30 31 [ 6] $ ncal -w 1 2005 January 2005 Su 2 9 16 23 30 Mo 3 10 17 24 31 Tu 4 11 18 25 We 5 12 19 26 Th 6 13 20 27 Fr 7 14 21 28 Sa 1 8 15 22 29 52 1 2 3 4 5 The first one is correct for Germany. The second one is correct for USA according to that documentation above. The third… whatever it is, is what ncal does. bye, //mirabilos -- 22:20⎜<asarch> The crazy that persists in his craziness becomes a master 22:21⎜<asarch> And the distance between the craziness and geniality is only measured by the success 18:35⎜<asarch> "Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent