On Thursday 26 November 2009 1:59:05 pm Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Hi, > > while using date_trunc('week', some_date) to get the date of the first day > of the week I noticed that it was working as expected: Monday is considered > the start of the week. > > I assume this depends on some locale setting, but I can't figure out which > it is, so I can make sure this is not "accidently" changed. I tried > changing LC_TIME (American_America) but that still returned Monday as the > first day (my understanding is that in the States Sunday is considered the > start of the week) > > Any pointers are appreciated (did I miss it in the manual?) > > Regards > Thomas >From here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-TRUNC week The number of the week of the year that the day is in. By definition (ISO 8601), the first week of a year contains January 4 of that year. (The ISO-8601 week starts on Monday.) In other words, the first Thursday of a year is in week 1 of that year. -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general