Re: Processing for 53 weeks??

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:36 AM 10/16/97 +0000, you wrote:
|>on 10/15/97at 06, the Great and Grand  Wazir "Ralph Day"
|><ralphday@blarg.net> said:
|>
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There are 2 choices for the 53rd week.  Either include it as part of the
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12th month or make it its own 13th month.  Making it part of the 12th
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month messes up this year/last year comparisons, so we chose to make it a
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13th mo
|>
|>There really is never a 13th week, its only that some day-of-the week will
|>always occur 53 times in a year.   Occasionally that 53rd day happens to
|>be your normal end-of-week, so it looks like you have 53 weeks but you
|>have 52.14 weeks every year (52.28 during leap year).  So, another choice
|>is to just kinda slide the first or last week of the year a bit.  Look at
|>a calender to see what causes the least ill effect.
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|>----------------------------------------------------
|>Booth Martin     
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|>
JUST  an aside thought -
  Now what happens if you elect to use  Date data types?
They might not like it too much<?>


Glenn
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