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In many organizations, the calendar year is divided into Work Weeks, usually abbreviated as wwxy. The first week of the year is ww01, the second is ww02, and so on. The last week of the year is usually ww52 or ww53. A week starts on Sunday and ends on the following Saturday. In order to compute the current work week, we need to know how many days passed since Sunday of ww01, divide by 7, and round upwards. We can compute the number of days since Sunday of ww01 by adding the following:
- Days in ww01 before January 1. This is actually the day of the week for January 1. If January 1 is 2 (Tuesday), for example, there are two days in ww01 that belong to the previous year (Sunday and Monday).
- Days in all months prior to current month. If today is February, for example, previous months include just January.
- Days in the current month that have passed. This is actually the current
date.
To compute the day of the week of January 1, we first create an instance date for January 1 (same year as today):
var newYearDayInstance = new Date(year, 0, 1); //instance of the date for January 1
And then get the day of the week:
var newYearDayOfWeek = newYearDayInstance.getDay(); //day of the week for January 1. 0 is Sunday
We then initialize the number of days passed since Sunday of ww01:
var daysUntilToday = newYearDayOfWeek;
And then add all previous months:
for (var j = 0; j <= month - 1; j++) { //count days in all previous months
daysUntilToday += getDays(j, year);
}
And finally, adding the number of days passed this month:
daysUntilToday += date;
We return the round-up number of the weekly count:
return Math.ceil(daysUntilToday/7);
We find the current work week, by calling getWorkWeek();
Here is the full listing of the methods:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function getDays(month, year) {
// create array to hold number of days in each month
var ar = new Array(12);
ar[0] = 31; // January
ar[1] = (year % 4 == 0) ? 29 : 28; // February
ar[2] = 31; // March
ar[3] = 30; // April
ar[4] = 31; // May
ar[5] = 30; // June
ar[6] = 31; // July
ar[7] = 31; // August
ar[8] = 30; // September
ar[9] = 31; // October
ar[10] = 30; // November
ar[11] = 31; // December
// return number of days in the specified month (parameter)
return ar[month];
}
function getWorkWeek() {
var now = new Date();
var year = now.getFullYear();
var month = now.getMonth();
var date = now.getDate();
now = null; // release memory
var newYearDayInstance = new Date(year, 0, 1); //instance of the date for January 1
var newYearDayOfWeek = newYearDayInstance.getDay(); //day of the week for January 1. 0 is Sunday
var daysUntilToday = newYearDayOfWeek; //days before January 1 in ww01
for (var j = 0; j <= month - 1; j++) { //count days in all previous months
daysUntilToday += getDays(j, year);
}
daysUntilToday += date; //add days in current month
return Math.ceil(daysUntilToday/7);
}
</SCRIPT>
Update (posted February 24, 2004)
The following information comes from
Dave Matheson, a reader in Oslo, Norway.
The working week script at http://webreference.com/js/tips/010217.html works
fine for US users. However the ISO standard (used in Europe) has the working
week starting on a Monday. Therefore today (Sunday, Feb. 22nd 2004) would be
working week 9 (in the US and per the script you have published), but week 8
in Europe (ISO standard).
To have the working week starting on a Monday (Europe / ISO standard) as opposed
to Sunday (USA) the script needs to be altered as follows:
Change the variable [within the function getWorkWeek()] from:
"var date = now.getDate();" to
"var date = now.getDate()-1;"
(lies in the function "function getWorkWeek()")
This has been checked across a variety of dates and seems to work fine - though
I am only a novice when it comes to Javascripts.
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