How to make weeks start from Sunday and be numbered from a custom date

How to make weeks start from Sunday and be numbered from a custom date

[Meir Goldenberg]

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Two questions:

1. My work week starts on Sunday, so I have:

(setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday 0)

Now the agenda timeline starts on Sunday as desired. However, it says on
top "Week agenda (W34-W35)", i.e. it still thinks that the week starts on
Monday. Can I change that?

2. It would be very useful for me if the weeks were numbered from the week
when my big work project started. Can I have the week numbering customized
to have W01 on a certain date?

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Re: How to make weeks start from Sunday and be numbered from a custom date

[Nick Dokos]

Meir Goldenberg <mgoldenbe@gmail.com> writes:

> Two questions:
>
> 1. My work week starts on Sunday, so I have:
>
> (setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday 0)
>
> Now the agenda timeline starts on Sunday as desired. However, it says on top "Week agenda (W34-W35)", i.e. it still thinks that the week starts on Monday. Can I change that? 
>
> 2. It would be very useful for me if the weeks were numbered from the week when my big work project started. Can I have the week numbering customized to have W01 on a certain date?
>

I believe the answer is "no" to both questions: these are ISO week
numbers and org depends on calendar functions to calculate them.

-- 
Nick

Re: How to make weeks start from Sunday and be numbered from a custom date

[Bill Burdick]

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Have you tried customizing org-agenda-format-date with a function?  Here's
the doc string:

"Format string for displaying dates in the agenda.
Used by the daily/weekly agenda and by the timeline.  This should be
a format string understood by `format-time-string', or a function returning
the formatted date as a string.  The function must take a single argument,
a calendar-style date list like (month day year)."

If you're mostly concerned about displaying dates, rather than reading them
in, that might do the trick.


-- Bill

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 9:04 PM Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:

> Meir Goldenberg <mgoldenbe@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Two questions:
> >
> > 1. My work week starts on Sunday, so I have:
> >
> > (setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday 0)
> >
> > Now the agenda timeline starts on Sunday as desired. However, it says on
> top "Week agenda (W34-W35)", i.e. it still thinks that the week starts on
> Monday. Can I change that?
> >
> > 2. It would be very useful for me if the weeks were numbered from the
> week when my big work project started. Can I have the week numbering
> customized to have W01 on a certain date?
> >
>
> I believe the answer is "no" to both questions: these are ISO week
> numbers and org depends on calendar functions to calculate them.
>
> --
> Nick
>
>
>

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Re: How to make weeks start from Sunday and be numbered from a custom date

[Meir Goldenberg]

Bill Burdick <bill.burdick <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> 
> Have you tried customizing org-agenda-format-date with a function?  
Here's the doc string:
> 
> "Format string for displaying dates in the agenda.
> Used by the daily/weekly agenda and by the timeline.  This should be
> a format string understood by `format-time-string', or a function 
returning
> the formatted date as a string.  The function must take a single 
argument,
> a calendar-style date list like (month day year)."
> 
> 
> If you're mostly concerned about displaying dates, rather than reading 
them in, that might do the trick.
> 
> 
> -- Bill
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 9:04 PM Nick Dokos <ndokos <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Meir Goldenberg <mgoldenbe <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Two questions:
> >
> > 1. My work week starts on Sunday, so I have:
> >
> > (setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday 0)
> >
> > Now the agenda timeline starts on Sunday as desired. However, it says 
on top "Week agenda (W34-W35)", i.e. it still thinks that the week starts 
on Monday. Can I change that? 
> >
> > 2. It would be very useful for me if the weeks were numbered from the 
week when my big work project started. Can I have the week numbering 
customized to have W01 on a certain date?
> >
> I believe the answer is "no" to both questions: these are ISO week
> numbers and org depends on calendar functions to calculate them.
> --
> Nick
> 
> 
> 

This sounds good. However, it requires knowledge of eLisp, which I cannot 
claim to possess. I would very much appreciate a code snippet that would 
get me started in the right direction.