Re: What is a week?

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

One of the iso standards has weeks starting on Monday.


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On Mon, 10 Apr 2023, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

>
> On 2023-04-10, at 05:35, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>
> > Hi fellow Orgers,
> >
> > I'm trying to wrap my head around the notion of the week, for the
> > purpose of using weekly clock tables.
> >
> > Assume it's Sunday.  I create a clock table with :wstart 0 and
> > thisweek - and apparently my clock table starts 7 days ago.
> >
> > Now it's Monday.  I create a clock table with :wstart 1 and thisweek -
> > and my clock table starts today.
> >
> > What is the logic behind it?
>
> To clarify: I understand that the reason is the `if' from this line from
> `org-clock.el':
>
> (setq diff (+ (* -7 shift) (if (= dow 0) (- 7 ws) (- dow ws)))
>
> (introduced ~10 years ago!).  But why is it coded this way?
>
> Best,
>
>