Perhaps you mean is that the definition ought be otherwise but at least according to one standard the definition is correct:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strptime.html On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Hans W. Borchers <hwborch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> >> According to the definition in ?strptime (which is not the same as the >> ISO definition): >> >> format(x, "%W") returns >> >> "Week of the year as decimal number (00–53) using Monday as the first >> day of week (and typically with the first Monday of the year as day 1 >> of week 1). The UK convention." >> >> The first day of 2008 is a Tuesday which means that 2008 starts in week 0. > > Yes I read that but it is still misleading and -- I think -- incorrect. > See <www.dateandtime.org/calendar> to find out that this is week 50 even > in the UK. > We would have had a lot of misplaced business meetings in our company if > the week numbers in Great Britain, Germany, and Sweden would actually be > different. > > Hans Werner > >> >> >> >> ... [rest deleted] >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help <at> r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
