Bug #4460: Date.commercial date calculations don't match strftime output

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: tadf (tadayoshi funaba)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18 revision 30909) [x86_64-linux]

[jhaagmans (Jaap Haagmans)]

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When retrieving the date for a week number using Date.commercial, the output sometimes differs from what you expect when looking at strftime. In my opinion, the following should always be true:

(({Date.commercial(year, week, day).strftime('%W') => week (String) }))

Which is in fact true today:

(({Date.today.strftime('%W') => "09"
Date.commercial(2011,9,1) => Mon, 28 Feb 2011
Date.today.at_beginning_of_week => Mon, 28 Feb 2011 }))

But not two years from now:

(({(Date.today+2.years).strftime("%W") => "08"
Date.commercial(2013,8,1) => Mon, 18 Feb 2013
(Date.today+2.years).at_beginning_of_week => Mon, 25 Feb 2013 }))

so:

(({Date.commercial(2013,8,1).strftime('%W') => "7"}))

I'm not quite sure why this is, but I think it's a bug and unfortunately it messes up some of my date calculations.
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[jhaagmans (Jaap Haagmans)]

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Hmm the pieces of code got printed on one line, I'll try again.

• The today example:

Date.today.strftime('%W') => "09"

Date.commercial(2011,9,1) => Mon, 28 Feb 2011

Date.today.at_beginning_of_week => Mon, 28 Feb 2011

*The 2 years from now example:

(Date.today+2.years).strftime("%W") => "08"

Date.commercial(2013,8,1) => Mon, 18 Feb 2013

(Date.today+2.years).at_beginning_of_week => Mon, 25 Feb 2013
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[tadf (tadayoshi funaba)]

• Assignee set to tadf (tadayoshi funaba)

[tadf (tadayoshi funaba)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

not a bug.

'%U', '%V' and '%W' are available for week number.
you should use %V in this case.
you can also use it with Date.strptime.

Date.new(2011,2,28).strftime('%G-%V-%u')
#=> "2011-09-1"
Date.new(2011,2,28).next_year(2).strftime('%G-%V-%u')
#=> "2013-09-4"

Date.commercial(2011,9,1)
#=> #<Date: 2011-02-28 ((2455621j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
Date.commercial(2013,9,4)
#=> #<Date: 2013-02-28 ((2456352j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>

Date.strptime('2011-09-1', '%G-%V-%u')
#=> #<Date: 2011-02-28 ((2455621j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>

Date.strptime('2013-09-4', '%G-%V-%u')
#=> #<Date: 2013-02-28 ((2456352j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>

[tadf (tadayoshi funaba)]

repost code

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Date.new(2011,2,28).strftime('%G-%V-%u')
#=> "2011-09-1"
Date.new(2011,2,28).next_year(2).strftime('%G-%V-%u')
#=> "2013-09-4"

Date.commercial(2011,9,1)
#=> #<Date: 2011-02-28 ((2455621j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
Date.commercial(2013,9,4)
#=> #<Date: 2013-02-28 ((2456352j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>

Date.strptime('2011-09-1', '%G-%V-%u')
#=> #<Date: 2011-02-28 ((2455621j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>

Date.strptime('2013-09-4', '%G-%V-%u')
#=> #<Date: 2013-02-28 ((2456352j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>

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