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Getting year's week number
/* For a given date, get the ISO week number
*
* Based on information at:
*
* http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/weekcalc.htm#WNR
*
* Algorithm is to find nearest thursday, it's year
* is the year of the week number. Then get weeks
* between that date and the first day of that year.
*
* Note that dates in one year can be weeks of previous
* or next year, overlap is up to 3 days.
*
* e.g. 2014/12/29 is Monday in week 1 of 2015
* 2012/1/1 is Sunday in week 52 of 2011
*/
function getWeekNumber(d) {
// Copy date so don't modify original
d = new Date(d);
d.setHours(0,0,0);
// Set to nearest Thursday: current date + 4 - current day number
// Make Sunday's day number 7
d.setDate(d.getDate() + 4 - (d.getDay()||7));
// Get first day of year
var yearStart = new Date(d.getFullYear(),0,1);
// Calculate full weeks to nearest Thursday
var weekNo = Math.ceil(( ( (d - yearStart) / 86400000) + 1)/7)
// Return array of year and week number
return [d.getFullYear(), weekNo];
}
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