I can only find algorithm for getting ISO 8601 week (week starts on a Monday).
However, the iCal spec says
A week is defined as a seven day period, starting on the day of the
week defined to be the week start (see WKST). Week number one of the
calendar year is the first week that contains at least four (4) days
in that calendar year.
Therefore, it is more complex than ISO 8601 since the start of week can be any day of the week.
Is there an algorithm to determine what is the week number of a date, with a custom start day of week?
or... is there a function in iCal4j that does this? Determine a weekno from a date?
Thanks!
p.s. Limitation: I'm using a JVM language that cannot extend a Java class, but I can invoke Java methods or instantiate Java classes.
if (input_date < firstDateOfTheYear(WKST, year))
{
return ((isLeapYear(year-1))?53:52);
}
else
{
return ((dayOfYear(input_date) - firstDateOfTheYear(WKST, year).day)/7 + 1);
}
firstDateOfTheYear returns the first calendar date given a start of week(WKST) and the year, e.g. if WKST = Thursday, year = 2012, then it returns Jan 5th.
dayOfYear returns sequencial numerical day of the year, e.g. Feb 1st = 32
Example #1: Jan 18th, 2012, start of week is Monday
- dayOfYear(Jan 18th, 2012) = 18
- firstDateOfTheYear(Monday, 2012) = Jan 2nd, 2012
(18 - 2)/7 + 1 = 3
Answer Week no. 3
Example #2: Jan 18th, 2012, start of week is Thursday
- dayOfYear(Jan 18th, 2012) = 18
- firstDateOfTheYear(Thursday, 2012) = Jan 5th, 2012
(18 - 5)/7 + 1 = 2
Answer Week no. 2
Example #3: Jan 1st, 2012, start of week is Monday
- firstDateOfTheYear(Monday, 2012) = Jan 2nd, 2012
- IsLeapYear(2012-1) = false
Jan 1st, 2012 < Jan 2nd, 2012
Answer Week no. 52