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WEEKNUM() Question

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Jared Call - 25 Oct 2006 08:21 GMT
The results of WEEKNUM() don't correspond with the calendaring system I
want.  

My first question is simple: How does the WEEKNUM() algorithm work?  If I
can figure out what it's based on, I can probably match it to the calendar
I'm using.  It looks like it's anywhere from 1 day off to 2 days off from my
calendar, depending on when my week decides to start.

The calendar I have starts on Mondays and assigns WEEK-1 to the first week
of January with at least 4 days in it.  So if WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR,1,1),2) is 5
(Friday) or greater, then the week doesn't start until WEEKDAY() yields 1.
This means that up to first 4 days of January would be considered WK 52 (or
53).

I started to wonder if there was a better way to do it, when my formula
started approaching 150 characters, and I still hadn't accounted for the WK
53 case or leap year.  I've never built my own function, but something tells
me it would be the cleanest way to do it.

I have a pdf of about 15 years worth, if anyone is interested in taking a
look.  Since it's .5MB, I won't try to attach it.
<http://www.capeyork.us/data/Calendar.pdf>.

Thanks in advance to the first "smart-guy" to help me out.  I've been hoping
to make time to figure this out for quite a while now.
Niek Otten - 25 Oct 2006 08:38 GMT
Read this:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/weeknum.htm

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Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

| The results of WEEKNUM() don't correspond with the calendaring system I
| want.
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| Thanks in advance to the first "smart-guy" to help me out.  I've been hoping
| to make time to figure this out for quite a while now.
Jared Call - 25 Oct 2006 17:16 GMT
On 10/25/06 12:38 AM, in article #Tc8UiA#GHA.5092@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,

> Read this:
>
> http://www.cpearson.com/excel/weeknum.htm

PERFECT.  Thanks.  I've seen Chip's pages before - I should have thought to
look there in the first place.

Thanks again!
Bob Phillips - 25 Oct 2006 09:33 GMT
I think you are referring to ISO week numbers.

Try this formula for calculating that week number

=INT((A1-DATE(YEAR(A1-WEEKDAY(A1-1)+4),1,3)+WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(A1-WEEKDAY(A1-
1)+4),1,3))+5)/7)

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HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

> The results of WEEKNUM() don't correspond with the calendaring system I
> want.
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> Thanks in advance to the first "smart-guy" to help me out.  I've been hoping
> to make time to figure this out for quite a while now.
Ron de Bruin - 25 Oct 2006 15:14 GMT
See also
http://www.rondebruin.nl/weeknumber.htm

and
http://www.rondebruin.nl/isodate.htm

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Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl

> The results of WEEKNUM() don't correspond with the calendaring system I
> want.
[quoted text clipped - 21 lines]
> Thanks in advance to the first "smart-guy" to help me out.  I've been hoping
> to make time to figure this out for quite a while now.

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