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This does look strange.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Carlos Nyembwe" <nyembwe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 26 Mar 2014 21:44
Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] [Dhis2-users] DHIS 2 - week
To: "Knut Staring" <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Matthieu Pinard" <matthieu@xxxxxxxxx>

The red color is showing the problem.
Why not once?


2014-03-26 2:58 GMT-07:00 Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Bonjour Carlos, je n'ai pas entendu ta question - est-ce que tu peut
> decrir ton probleme en francais? Matthieu sera capable a interpreter. Ou
> peut-etre un capture d'ecran pour expliquer?
>
> Knut
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Carlos Nyembwe <nyembwe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello all, I have an observation.
>> I'd like to know why when I generates the report on the validation data
>> on the period column, she has dual display? if medium, can you review that?
>>
>>
>> 2014-03-25 9:16 GMT-07:00 Shantala Raman <sraman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> Yes, it would be great if the week numbers in a year and start & end days
>>> can be made configurable. I will wait to hear from this group on whether
>>> this is possible.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Shantala
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Jason Pickering <
>>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Shantala,
>>>>
>>>> As Knut's email alludes to , along the article which you shared hints
>>>> at, there may be different definitions of what an "Epi Week" actually is.
>>>>
>>>> It is therefore that DHIS2 has adopted the ISO standard definition,
>>>> which can be determined with precision, due to the rigor of its definition.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In your case, is you requirement that your week begins on Sunday
>>>> instead of Monday, with the first week being determined by the "The first
>>>> epi week of the year ends, by definition, on the first Saturday of January,
>>>> as long as it falls at least four days into the month"?
>>>>
>>>> A question to the developers...would it be possible to support a "user
>>>> defined period type", which would require that users create their own
>>>> start/enddates? I realize that this would create problems for the offline
>>>> features of DHIS2, but this requirement, along with similar ones in
>>>> countries which do not use the Gregorian calendar, point to the need for
>>>> something more flexible than what we currently have.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Jason
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Shantala Raman <
>>>> sraman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sure. The requirement is to have data collection done weekly with the
>>>>> week being an Epi week <http://www.cmmcp.org/epiweek.htm>(epidemiology week), having week start date of Sunday and end date of
>>>>> Saturday.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Could you elaborate a bit on your specific requirements?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Knut
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Shantala Raman <
>>>>>> sraman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you. This helps.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We have actually accommodated other weeks (eg Wed to Tue) in
>>>>>>>> Cambodia, but this code is not yet part of the core.
>>>>>>>>  On Mar 24, 2014 12:53 PM, "Jason Pickering" <
>>>>>>>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Shantala,
>>>>>>>>> The weeks are calculated according to the ISO 8601 time and date
>>>>>>>>> standard.
>>>>>>>>> This generally means weeks start on Monday and end on Sunday.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  More info can be found here
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>> Jason
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Shantala Raman <
>>>>>>>>> sraman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> For data that is reported/collected on a weekly basis, we have a
>>>>>>>>>> requirement to use Epidemiology weeks. I wanted to know how the weeks are
>>>>>>>>>> calculated in DHIS2. Please point me to any documentation around the logic
>>>>>>>>>> for calculating the weeks.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>> Shantala
>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Knut Staring
>>>>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>>>>>> +4791880522
>>>>>> http://dhis2.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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> Knut Staring
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