System 2 - The first week of the year is considered to be the week containing the first Thursday of the year, which is numbered as week 1. System 2 is the approach specified in ISO 8601, also known as the European system for numbering weeks. For each type, the start day and end day of a week are defined as follows when counting week numbers: More @Wikipedia
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