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Re: quarter code for date
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: quarter code for date |
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Fri, 7 Oct 2016 15:13:16 +0100 |
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On 07/10/16 03:54, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
> Michael
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> A year of weeks (ISO) may be 52 or 53, depending on when the first Thursday
> of the month lands.
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> Therefore a quarter of a year may include 13 or 13.5 weeks. (one definition).
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> The other, by your simple shell script, it provides a second definition,
> based on the calendar.
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> One more ponderable, Do we take days in the year and use 1 Jan as the start
> of a quarter, or the first week to be the one containing the Sunday that
> first precedes or has 1 January (Dec 27th 2016)?
It's probably best to not consider weeks in this at all.
Just month boundaries