On 2018-07-15 09:27, Tim Parenti wrote:
On 13 July 2018 at 11:13, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu <mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu>> wrote:
On 07/12/2018 11:53 PM, Raymond Kumar wrote:
school term always ends after week of 7th Jan. In 2018 the Fiji school term started January 15, which was the first Monday after the week containing January 7. However, in 2017 the school term started January 16, even though January 9 was the first Monday after the week containing January 7. So I'm afraid that I'm not seeing the pattern here. http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Events/2016-SCHOOL-TERMS.aspx http://www.education.gov.fj/index.php/30-home/327-school-terms-2017 Even if we don't have a discernible pattern for when the Fijian school term starts, we should probably add some commentary that their January transition out of DST tends to be based on it, as it points us to several other sources from which we could derive better guesses. The pattern appears to be in ISO/"work" weeks 14, 2 hols, 14, 2 hols, 13/14, 7/8 hols/DST, to align the weeks with the years, like an ISO work year shifted a fortnight later. If anyone wants to play with the school term dates for years documented on the site, they may be able to come up with a consistent relation to ISO weeks, that should also be consistent with the DST dates. Even if true, for a single case, it's unlikely anyone will extend the tz date notation to support ISO week/day date relations, as that might encourage those countries who use them widely to define *their* DST periods as ISO weeks, and that could spread, as administrators buy calendars marked with ISO weeks ;^>
-- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada