Re: Get Start Date of a Week Number

Thank you for the feedback. In the forecast I am getting arbitrary dates
and quantities. The person getting the report simply wanted the quantities
accumulated by week. So, if I got data for Monday and Tuesday of the same
week, I would add those together.

In my report, I had a row for each item and then a column for each week.
It might look like this:

Item, Week 1, Week 2
ABC,344,200

And so on.

After generating that output, the user then asked to have the start date
for the week show instead of the week number so now it night look like:

Item, 2014-12-29, 2015-01-05
ABC,344,200

The 12/29 and 01/15 dates were just from a calendar I was looking at. I do
not think it matters at all if the definition of the week is the ISO one or
not. The main thing is that I am consistent and put dates as the column
headings and not week numbers anymore.

I think Birgitta's solution will work, but I am not in a place to try it
out at the moment.

If you've got other thoughts though, just let me know.

Thanks to all who replied so far!


On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:22 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Brian <belstsrv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have the need to get the date of the first day of the week based on a
week number.

The date can be based off Sunday or whatever arbitrary day could be
considered as the first day of the week, if that helps.

I think you need to be more clear. Are we talking about ISO week
numbers (see John E's link)? Or do *you* choose which day of the
week? Or is that something that is given to you? Or are you given a
start date?

As an example, if I had week number of 1, the date might be 12/29/2014,
week 2 would give me 1/5/2015 and so on.

Where does the 12/29/2014 come from? Is that input? Could you be
given any arbitrary date as input?

If you're not talking ISO, and you get *two* pieces of input, and
those two pieces are (1) a start date and (2) the week number, then
you can simply add the required multiple of 7 days. Taking your
example, where startDate is d'2014-12-29' and weekNumber is 2:

newDate = startDate + %days(7 * (weekNumber - 1))

But your requirements may be different. I'll wait until you clarify
before offering more.

John Y.

Can anyone provide some suggestions on a method to get to a date based

off

the week number?

Thank you.
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