[mattas]

I really like this. As easy as it is to be cynical about corporate-speak, I find that it's sometimes actually useful (except for the whole touching base and circling back jargon).

Questions. When do weeks start? On Saturdays or Sundays? How do you account for partial weeks at the beginning/end of years?

[fweimer]

ISO 8601 covers that. Weeks start on Mondays. The first week of the year has January 4th in it, which means that it sometimes starts on a Monday in the previous Gregorian year. This is why strftime has separate format specifiers for ISO year and ISO week year, %Y and %G: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strftime.3.html#NO...

[anitil]

My company (left unnamed to protect the guilty) starts our week on Thursday. Or sometimes Wednesday. But definitely not on Tuesday! Except a couple of places where it's Tuesday.

It's juuuust close enough to ISO8601 where with a bit of forethought everything could have been easy.

[efdee]

I would understand someone asking if the week starts on Sunday or Monday, but I honest to God did not know some people start their week on Saturday.

[froindt]

I've seen Saturday for payroll week start. It naturally makes sense to align other business calendars accordingly.

It does get funky with overtime. If weather cancels a Monday-Friday shift, you might schedule a makeup shift on Saturday. What would typically be straight time in the same pay period is now going to cause overtime in the following week.

[9dev]

Just an off by one error on OPs part, I guess

[mattas]

Can confirm. I got the weekend confused.

[Symbiote]

Muslims, and therefore many countries in the Middle East and North Africa.