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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

For my purposes, that's really all I know, and for my requirements it will
be exactly parallel to countries that require Monday instead of Sunday.

But certainly the Nepali, Ethiopian and several others have more complex
requirements, which I think partly must be treated as separate cases.


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Explain the Cambodian calendar a bit more.  I am sure there is more to it
> than when the weeks start.  Or is that it?
>
>
> On 14 June 2013 17:35, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Jason and Bob.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this seems to be a pressing requirement in several
>> countries
>>
>> I think one simplification that could be justified would be to have only
>> one week type in one DHIS2 instance. Thus, the exact meaning of 2012W25 is
>> defined by looking at the FIRSTDAYOFWEEK setting in the particular db
>> (which probably should be displayed on the About DHIS 2 page.
>>
>> Of course, that does not solve interoperability issues (but rather it
>> deteriorate through obfuscation), but I think it is reasonable to think
>> that everyone in Cambodia uses weeks starting on Wednesdays.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Weeks are as we all know something of a headache.  What we have defined
>>> currently in DHIS2, as Jason points out, is the ISO standard week, which
>>> even itself is something of a headache.
>>>
>>> I suspect that to incorporate all the variety which is called for
>>> (Wednesday week starts is the most exotic I've seen to date!  But there are
>>> also Islamic calendar issues, Ethiopian/Amharic calendar, Monday vs Sunday
>>> starts etc)  we might need to zoom right out to define a generic repeating
>>> period with rules around starting and stopping.  But it could get quite
>>> complicated.  Two immediate issues which come to mind
>>> (i) we need a string representation of periods.  So 2010W23 has a
>>> particular meaning in terms of the ISO week number.  How to differentiate
>>> this from a week which starts on a Wednesday (and which day of the year
>>> would be day 1 of week 1?);
>>> (ii) how to aggregate along the time axis ie, weeks->months->years
>>>
>>> Its something which needs to be done, but I am not at all clear what the
>>> correct design approach would be.  Would be interested to hear people's
>>> thoughts.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14 June 2013 17:12, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Devs: Is this something which could be targeted for 2.13?
>>>>
>>>> Knut
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Jason Pickering <
>>>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Currently not. This has come up before, but for now, ISO weeks are
>>>>> what has been implemented.
>>>>>
>>>>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Jason
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Paulo Grácio <
>>>>> pgracio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi, ****
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ** **
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a way to define week start day for Weekly periods?****
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ** **
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,****
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Paulo Grácio****
>>>>>>
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Knut Staring
Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
+4791880522
http://dhis2.org