53 Weeks in MS Project 9

[Steve Solomon]

My company has an old version of Project, and it
continually states there are 53 weeks in certain years.
eg: this year. Can anyone offer any advise?

 

[John Beamish]

There a couple of ways to get 53 weeks in 2004. Here's one of them:

The first week had 3 days and began Thurs. Jan 1.
The second week had 7 days and began Sun, Jan 4.
The fifty-third week has 6 days and begins Sun, Dec 26.
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=&country=22

My company has an old version of Project, and it
continually states there are 53 weeks in certain years.
eg: this year. Can anyone offer any advise?

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[John]

Steve,
I assume you have Project 4.x (i.e. Project 95). Apparently because
there is a glitch having to do with leap years, some years will show 53
work weeks. In the case of 2004, the first week starts 1/4/04 (Sunday)
and the 53rd week starts 1/2/05 (Sunday). You will note however that
each year will have at least 52 weeks (i.e. no weeks are "lost"). There
are no options settings that I am aware of that will correct the
anomoly. I guess the real question is, does this anomoly negatively
impact your Project plans and if so, how so? Depending on the impact,
there are likely workarounds.

John

 

[Reguk]

Just as an aside - its not a bug exactly - this is the ISO standar

reg

 

[Guest]

Thankyou for the info. Hopefully my user is happy with
this response

 

[John]

Reg,
ISO standard? Something is awash if an ISO standard says that 1/2/05 is
the 53rd week of 2004!

John