Re: Date Questions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron Johnson
Subject Re: Date Questions
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Msg-id 45B6A6F5.2010109@cox.net
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In response to Date Questions  ("Robert Sanford" <rsanford@trefs.com>)
Responses Re: Date Questions  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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On 01/23/07 17:22, Robert Sanford wrote:
> It appears to me that there is some inconsistency in the date
> calculations for my PostgreSQL install (version 8.0 on Win32).
>
> January 07 of 2007 is a Sunday. Based on the documentation I would
> expect that date to be the first day of the second week of the year
> 2007. That's not what I'm getting. When I run:
>
>   select date_part('DOW'::text, '2007-01-07'::timestamp);
>
> I receive my expected result of 0 indicating that Sunday is the first
> day of the week. But, when I run
>
>   select date_part('week'::text, '2007-01-07'::timestamp);
>
> I get a result of 1 indicating that it is part of the first week of the
> year. That seems inconsistent with the first result which would indicate
> it was the first day of the second week of the year. I was expecting a
> result of 2.
>
> Am I missing something?

01-Jan was a Monday.  So, is 07-Jan the first full week of the
month, or not?
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