num_day_of_year guidance is unclear

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  akerbeltzalba · Member · Feb 10, 2015 at 12:30 am

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  I’m a fairly experience localizer but this one stumped me completely. There’s a note:

  The week that contains Jan (X) is the first week of the year,
  e.g., 4 means Jan 4. Different regions start counting weeks with different rules, check Wikipedia to be sure.

  But that’s not really helpful. If there’s a wiki page, please link it. And the wording just doesn’t tell the localizer enough to deal with this one.

  Even a Google search doesn’t throw up anything.

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  druesome · Staff · Feb 10, 2015 at 7:25 am

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  Hi there! Sorry that you found it confusing. I’ll take this up with the team and let you know what I find out as soon as I can. Thanks!

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  druesome · Staff · Feb 11, 2015 at 7:01 pm

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  Hi! The Wikipedia page being referred to was this:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date#First_week

  And here’s another resource that can help:

  https://digibites.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200299853-How-do-I-change-the-week-number-system-How-do-I-change-the-first-day-of-the-week-

  Admittedly, both pages may still leave many confused, and the team is now discussing ways to handle the string without having to go through GlotPress. Thanks!

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  akerbeltzalba · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 6:14 pm

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  Yes, I’m still not sure what value is expected here so handling this outside GlotPress sounds like a good idea. Does CLDR not have data for this?

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  druesome · Staff · Mar 21, 2015 at 6:21 am

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  Sorry for the lateness of my reply!

  Does CLDR not have data for this?

  That’s correct, and we are leaning towards utilizing that data going forward.