Re: Question: Week Number Semantics

[Pat Egen <pregen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank, in response to your request for some end-user feedback, I put the
question our on one of our Notes databases at SHARE. Here's some of the
comments.  I took out names of people, but left in their organizations.
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"It is important that the start of the week be considered a variable.  While the
work week might start on Monday, some people's work week starts on a Sunday.  In
the 4 day, 10 hr/day work environment, the week might start on Tuesday.
Therefore, it is shortsighted to assume that Monday is the day to choose."

Director, US Army Research
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I agree with ...(person above)..... and can give you a concrete example.  For
reasons known only to our bean counters, our week starts on Saturday.  So, if we
were to use a calendaring program to input, say, our time accounting, we would
need to specify Saturday as the starting day.  We use a web based program
currently and that's the way it is set up. (And it's not my favorite
application.)

Hope this helps

Strategist from Storage Tech
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The start of the week needs to be flexible, my brother-in-law's factory ran
their work week on a Thursday to Wednesday basis.

Sr. Technical Programmer  from VERY large insurance company
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On a worldwide basis you need to have flexability on the start of the week.
I've seen it be everything from Thursday through Tuesday (for some reason I've
never seen a copy start on Wednesday ??).   While the majority use Monday in
North America, this is not typical worldwide

Network Consultant (very, very active internationally with Customer
organizations) - from IBM Network Division, RTP


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