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  3. January 2009

Re: Week_ISO and the last week of 2008

McKown, John wrote:

Given your email address, I'd guess that you are using the
European date format instead of the US one. If your curious,
that means you should try:

select week_iso(date('29/12/08')) from sysibm.sysdummy1

Rather than trying another variant [non-standard & ambiguous two-digit year] date-format based on locale, it is IMO always best to choose a standard[s] format such as the *ISO date-format, for the specification of any date literal. That is, the original given example would have been best, coded to avoid ambiguity [and thus mapping errors] using:

select week_iso(date('2008-12-29')) from sysibm.sysdummy1

Regards, Chuck

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