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January 1st is not always on the first week of the year (www.jpvalencia.com)
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The other day at work I stumbled upon this bug and thought it was worth to write a blog post about. Spoiler: It has nothing to do with timezones!

TLDR: According to ISO standard 8601 (which is what Python's date.isocalendar().week uses for example), the first week of the year is the week with the first Thursday of the year. So sometimes the first few days of January belong to the last week of previous year, and sometimes the last few days of December belong to the first week of next year :D

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[–] 39 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Obligatory links:

Falsehoods that programmers think about dates and times: https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time

Tom Scott descends into time and timezone madness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

I've personally never worked with ISO 8601 directly, and quite frankly prefer how RFC 3339 simply doesn't deal with weeks at all.

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