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January 1st is not always on the first week of the year (www.jpvalencia.com)

submitted 2 months ago by null4141@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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The other day at work I stumbled upon this bug and thought it was worth to write a blog post about. Spoiler: It has nothing to do with timezones!

TLDR: According to ISO standard 8601 (which is what Python's date.isocalendar().week uses for example), the first week of the year is the week with the first Thursday of the year. So sometimes the first few days of January belong to the last week of previous year, and sometimes the last few days of December belong to the first week of next year :D

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[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fuck, I just wrote an app to help HR process data and I had to, without using Ai, define the first week of the year to match that ISO spec. Week 53 was a fun one but I now have to cover two weeks with the same number.

[–] folekaule@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yep, but the year of week will be different for each.

Use a date library. Life is too short to make your own. The new Temporal library in JavaScript is quite good.

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's written in C++ lol

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

As all good libraries are 😎

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The new Temporal library in JavaScript is quite good.

Sadly, Safari fucks us yet again.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is it this time?

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, Safari is the only browser not to support the new Temporal API.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Ah, I thought they actively broke it somehow