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Re: [HACKERS] Date conversion using day of week

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On 1 April 2011 03:32, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Now I am confused the docs say:
>
> D       day of the week, Sunday(1) to Saturday(7)
> ID      ISO day of the week, Monday(1) to Sunday(7)
>
> This would seem to say they both are one-based but differ on the day that is
> 1.

That's correct for the user-facing interpretation.  Internally,
however, Gregorian day-of-week is represented with Sunday = 0.  I
can't see any good reason in the code for why that should be so, but
it was like that when I found it, and until now I haven't had any
cause to mess with it.

My suggestion for moving forward basically still stands, though.  We'd
need to standardise the use of TmFromChar.d to either one of the
1-based conventions, and convert to the other one as required in
do_to_timestamp.  The Gregorian convention is probably the right
choice for the standard, even though it has the week starting on a
Sunday (ridiculous!) because it means less converting for the majority
of cases.

Cheers,
BJ

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