[Gambas-user] Week function and localization

Benoît Minisini gambas at ...1...
Wed Dec 22 18:14:07 CET 2010


> ? Week(Date(2005, 7, 24))
> 30
> Calendar says 29, however this doesn't seem to be this simple...
> 
> See end of this page, section 'weeks', week number options.
> http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/custommenu.html?year=2005&country=9&wno
> =5&holm=1&df=1
> 
> Seems that there are several ways how week numbers are counted in different
> countries!
> So, with same date, 30 is wrong in Finland but correct in Japan....
> 
> Jussi

This is the reason why Week() has two optional arguments. Apparently there is 
no information in the localization system settings that allows to know how to 
compute the week number from a date. So this is up to the programmer to decide 
himself by using the two optional arguments of Week().

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini




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