Re: What is a week?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2023-04-10, at 05:35, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:

> Hi fellow Orgers,
>
> I'm trying to wrap my head around the notion of the week, for the
> purpose of using weekly clock tables.
>
> Assume it's Sunday.  I create a clock table with :wstart 0 and
> thisweek - and apparently my clock table starts 7 days ago.
>
> Now it's Monday.  I create a clock table with :wstart 1 and thisweek -
> and my clock table starts today.
>
> What is the logic behind it?

To clarify: I understand that the reason is the `if' from this line from
`org-clock.el':

(setq diff (+ (* -7 shift) (if (= dow 0) (- 7 ws) (- dow ws)))

(introduced ~10 years ago!).  But why is it coded this way?

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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