Converting a date to a week number and vice versa

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This tip shows you how to convert a date to a week number and vice versa using Formula Language. It was written at R4, and I can no longer remember why it works -- but it does.

The International Organization for Standardization defines Week 1 in a given year as the first week (starting Monday) that contains at least 4 January-days. In other words, Week 1 is the first week that includes a Thursday. 

  
Code: Date -> Week Number:
"SomeDate" is a date-time field 
containing a date.

Jan1st := @Date(@Year(SomeDate); 1; 1); 
REM {Jan 1st same same year 
(not necessarily part of week 1)}; 
Adjust := 3 - @Modulo((@Weekday(Jan1st) + 1); 7);
 REM {Number of days to Monday week 1};
MondayW1 := @Adjust(Jan1st; 0; 0; 
Adjust;0; 0; 0); REM {Date for Monday week 1}; 
WeekNumber := 1 + 
@Integer(((SomeDate - MondayW1)\86400)\7)

Note that LotusScript can return a 
Week Number for a Date directly.

Week Number -> Date
"SomeYear" is a numerical field 
containing a year.
"SomeWeek" is a numerical field 
containing a week number.
"SomeWeekday" is a numerical field 
containing a weekday number (Monday=1, Sunday =7)

Jan1st := @Date(SomeYear; 1; 1); 
REM {Jan 1st same year 
(not necessarily part of week 1)}; 
Adjust := SomeWeekday +2 - 
@Modulo((@Weekday(Jan1st) + 1); 7); 
REM {Number of days to "SomeWeekday" week 1};
SomeWeekdayW1 := @Adjust(Jan1st; 0; 0; 
Adjust;0; 0; 0); REM {Date for "SomeWeekday" week 1}; 
Date := @Adjust(SomeWeekdayW1; 0; 0; 7 * 
(SomeWeek - 1); 0; 0; 0)

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Klavs Thor Olesen says in in his tip that LotusScript can return a Week Number for a Date directly.

I would like to know how, because I have not found any method that does this.
—Goran L.

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It is the Format function I referred to. Here is an example: 

Sub Click(Source As Button)
Msgbox Format(Today, "ww"), 0+64+0+0, "Week number of Today"
End Sub

—Klavs Thor Olesen, tip author

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This is exactly what I was looking for. I was looking for a formula to calculate a week number field on a form based on a date entered in another field. I typed in calculate week number in a search engine and there it was, number eight in my search results. It's just what I was looking for and it does exactly what I need it to do. I set the properties of the new field to compute after validation and it works perfectly. Thanks very much.
—Bob V.

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Here is the same function converted to LotusScript: 

--Code start--
Function fWeekNumberDate
(numYear As Integer, numWeekNo As 
Integer, numWeekDay As Integer ) As Variant 
%REM 
Version 1.0 
Author: Andrew Dempster, Constellation 
Europe Ltd 
Date: 28/06/2007 
Cobbled together from various places 
this script is a duplicate of a @Formula 
that returns a date from a week number and day 

"numYear" is a numerical value containing 
a year. 
"numWeekNo" is a numerical value containing 
a week number. 
"numWeekDay" is a numerical value containing 
a weekday number (Sunday=1, Monday=2, Saturday =7) 

%END REM 
Dim numAdjust As Integer 
Dim dtJan1st As NotesDateTime 
Dim dtSomeWeekDayW1 
As NotesDateTime 
   
Set dtJan1st = New NotesDateTime
("01/01/" & Cstr(numYear)) 
'/* Jan 1st same year 
(not necessarily part of week 1) 
numAdjust = numWeekDay + 1 - 
(Weekday(dtJan1st.DateOnly)+1) Mod 7 
'/* Number of days to "numWeekDay" week 1 
Call dtJan1st.AdjustDay(numAdjust, True) 
Set dtSomeWeekDayW1 = 
New NotesDateTime(dtJan1st.DateOnly) 
'/* Date for "numWeekDay" week 1 
Call dtSomeWeekDayW1.AdjustDay
(7 *(numWeekNo -1)) 
 fWeekNumberDate = 
dtSomeWeekDayW1.DateOnly 
End Function 
--Code end--

Also, here's a handy hint for the Formula code, using correct weekdays: 

--Code start-- 
N := "1" : "2" : "3" : "4" : "5" : "6" : "7"; 
Days := "Sunday" : "Monday" : "Tuesday"
 : "Wednesday" : "Thursday" : "Friday"
 : "Saturday"; 
SomeWeekday := @TextToNumber
(@Replace(Day;Days;N)); <-- 
Where Day is your Text date field 
Adjust := SomeWeekday + 1 - 
@Modulo((@Weekday(Jan1st) + 1); 7); 
<- Changed to +1 as days now in line 
with @WeekDay function! 
--Code end--

I hope this helps (I've got a calendar population routine in the pipeline that I shall be submitting later). A huge thanks to Klavs for this function; it's a lifesaver!
—Andrew D.

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This was first published in January 2006

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