dayofyear is not great when going into a new year

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Jan 9 11:40:39 EST 2021


On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 1:31 AM Michael F. Stemper <mstemper at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 09/01/2021 01.51, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> > Am 05.01.21 um 23:56 schrieb Eli the Bearded:
> >> Elijah
> >> ------
> >> also finds "week starts on Monday" to be oddball about ISO-8601
> >>
> >
> > In Europe, the week starts on Monday - hence, Saturday and Sunday are
> > the last days of the week or the "weekend". Starting on Sunday is weird
> > for us, because then the weekend is split into the first and last day of
> > the week (?)
>
> A week is like a piece of string. It has two ends.
>

And a long weekend is like asking "how long is a piece of string"?

ChrisA


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