Re: Week Number in Fujitsu cobol

In article <pLLkg.54484$IK3.30157@pd7tw1no>,
James J. Gavan <jgavandeletethis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
In article <KaEkg.43471$iF6.33049@pd7tw2no>,
James J. Gavan <jgavandeletethis@xxxxxxx> wrote:


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To which one could further add, are you using a conventional calendar
year starting at January 01, or perhaps a company fiscal year starting
say on 1st April, and what if 1st January or 1st April falls on a Friday
or a Saturday - what does your first week consist of ?


Hmmmmm... this might be seen as a subset of 'Is it for a single
installation or should it be parameterised so as to be able to run for
multiple bases, that is, is it for a single 'store' or will it be for a
series of 'stores' in a group, a series of groups in a division, etc?'';
if there is more than one installation on which reporting is required then
it might be concluded - especially in These Modern Times of Globalised
Corporations - that different installations run on different calendars...
a calendar used in London (eg, 16 Jun 2006) might not be the same as one
used in Jerusalem (20 Sivan 5766) might not be the same as one used in
Jeddah (Jumada-al-Oola 1427).

But... this may all be a bit of premature pirouetting, dancing before some
simple crawling-rules are established. I'd be interested in seeing how
the questions of run-frequency and data-volume are answered, first.

What's this - bull*** baffles brains :-)

I'm not sure... when folks start to believe I have some I might go about
seeing what it is that baffles them.

Your Jeddah - June
(Jumaa-al-Oola) comes out as Huzayran in Syria !

There's almost always 'Something More'... if there weren't then folks
might get fewer 2:am calls from the Prod crew.

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Our enquirer could even google on 'Financial-Calendars' - not that I
think it will help him much.

I'm assuming he's probably talking one corporation - however even if it
has subsidiaries, likely they all have the same financial year-end to
produce a consolidated financial statement for the group. However -
globalization; certainly was occurring when I was using quill and ink,
but I tend to think globalization is a phenomenon of the past 20 years -
and if they do have different year-end dates, becomes a real stinker for
consolidation, particularly if they are intra-trading, (because of the
reconciliations involved).

All the above is interesting trivia - still doesn't help him with his
Week Numbers :-)

It might be interesting to see the responses to the several queries which
have been presented... I seem to recall one posting that gave me a
simultaneous heaviness-of-heart and wryness-of-smile because it read
something like 'You mean it isn't easy?'


Don't you dare retort, "I barely know what I think myself ..." - Google
first !

If doing a web-search first will help to determine 'what I think, myself'
then it might be time for Utter Despair. It's obvious that I should be
concerned about how the Space Aliens steal my brainwaves... now I have to
worry about the Google Spiders?

DD

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