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From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: Tommi Kyntola <tommi.kyntola@gmail.com>
Cc: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@gmail.com>, util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] week numbers for cal
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 18:06:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5252EA23.4080508@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO2cUkQuNiHwdmxACq1i1W8ix1teVvtUi9McPtksRrFC-M7F3g@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/07/2013 12:39 PM, Tommi Kyntola wrote:
> Why not. I wasn't sure what exactly should be done with 52 when many
> years have days belonging to two different 52 weeks, but I came up
> with a spec that says it points to the week that starts during the
> relevant year.
> 
> A patch in guthub:
> https://github.com/Kynde/util-linux/commit/3a53abddc14f46eccb4264668b24875054f5ba62

It's generally best to avoid optional args on short args,
as in this case -w3 is ambiguous and -wj is problematic.
So I'd instead support an interface like -w,--week[=NUM]

thanks,
Pádraig.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-07 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-05 20:59 [RFC/PATCH] week numbers for cal Tommi Kyntola
2013-10-06 15:29 ` Sami Kerola
2013-10-06 17:23   ` Tommi Kyntola
2013-10-06 18:38     ` Benno Schulenberg
2013-10-07  3:10     ` Pádraig Brady
2013-10-07 11:39       ` Tommi Kyntola
2013-10-07 17:06         ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
2013-10-07 17:59           ` Tommi Kyntola
2013-10-07 23:33             ` Pádraig Brady
2013-10-09  9:43 ` Karel Zak
2013-10-22 10:32 ` Karel Zak
2013-10-22 15:23   ` Sami Kerola
2013-10-22 15:55     ` Karel Zak
2013-10-23  6:56   ` Tommi Kyntola

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