Hey, thanks all. That macro is outstanding. I'd definitely rather exploit existing filter techniques than add in a plugin!
I had run across the term "ordinal date" in wikipedia for this thing, and "day of year" would also be an intuitively clear way to refer to it. I'll pick one of those to use for my field. :) On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 7:52:50 PM UTC-4 Eric Shulman wrote: > On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 4:08:23 PM UTC-7, TW Tones wrote: >> >> For clarity we would call this the "day of year number" DOY >> > > Based on my recent work with time and date ( > http://TiddlyTools.com/timer.html), I have learned quite a bit about date > nomenclature. > > In fact, there is a well-defined international standard, ISO-8601 ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Ordinal_dates>), that defines how > dates are represented and referenced > > Using that international standard, the "day of year number" is called the > *"ordinal > date"* (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Ordinal_dates). > > Similarly, the standard defines the "week of year" number, which is just > referred to as the *"week number"* ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date). > > There is also a standard for "*weekday number*" which is *"a digit d from > 1 through 7, beginning with Monday and ending with Sunday"* > > Note that the TWCore date formatting (https://tiddlywiki.com/#DateFormat) > that > is used by the <<now>> macro already supports "week number" using "WW" and > "0WW" formatting codes. It also supports both 4-digit and 2-digit "year > number with respect to week number, using "wYYYY" and "wYY" formatting > codes respectively. > > -e > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d16bcfc3-bb3f-4645-af2b-9287815301c1n%40googlegroups.com.
