Hello Urs, On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 at 16:05, Urs Thuermann <urs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A year cannot only begin with week number 53 of the previous year but > also with week number 52. Year 2011 is an example for this case, as > can be easily seen with GNU date: > > $ date -d "jan 1 2011" "+%c %V %G" > Sat Jan 1 00:00:00 2011 52 2010 > > This patch is against the current man-pages git repository. Patch applied! Cheers, Michael > diff --git a/man3/strftime.3 b/man3/strftime.3 > index 8dfe58c..a516979 100644 > --- a/man3/strftime.3 > +++ b/man3/strftime.3 > @@ -360,13 +360,15 @@ the first week of the year that contains a Thursday; > or, the week that has 4 January in it). > When three of fewer days of the first calendar week of the new year fall > within that year, > -then the ISO 8601 week-based system counts those days as part of week 53 > -of the preceding year. > +then the ISO 8601 week-based system counts those days as part of week 52 > +or 53 of the preceding year. > For example, 1 January 2010 is a Friday, > meaning that just three days of that calendar week fall in 2010. > Thus, the ISO\ 8601 week-based system considers these days to be part of > week 53 (\fB%V\fP) of the year 2009 (\fB%G\fP) ; > week 01 of ISO\ 8601 year 2010 starts on Monday, 4 January 2010. > +Similarly, the first two days of January 2011 are considered to be part > +of week 52 of the year 2010. > .SS Glibc Notes > Glibc provides some extensions for conversion specifications. > (These extensions are not specified in POSIX.1-2001, but a few other -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
