Re: Get Start Date of a Week Number

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would counter that the beauty of using week for groupings is that weeks
are the only consistent calendar grouping we have. A week is 7 days.
Always. Months vary, quarters vary, and years vary. If one is looking for
trends and comparisons to make business decisions then consistent time
frames are imperative. The idea of having short weeks at the beginning and
ending of a year worries me.

And yet we still have to have years, and those years *by mathematical
necessity* cannot be perfectly aligned with 7-day weeks. (Blame Earth
for revolving slightly too slowly around the sun, or rotating slightly
too quickly about its axis.)

Any time you have to reconcile the cycles of multiple independent
natural phenomena, you are going to have to approximate and compromise
somewhere. I'll grant that months are definitely more screwed up than
they have to be, but all in all, the calendar does a respectable job
of balancing several competing concerns.

John Y.