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		Dylan16807 on April 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I bought ISO 8601-1:2019 and 8601-2:2019 Depends on your threshold of surprise. I would say that the end of a week going into the next year is much less surprising or even non-surprising.

gowld on April 3, 2021 [–]

It's surprising that a day in 2019 is not part of a week in 2019.

Dylan16807 on April 3, 2021 | [–]

Out of context yes. In context the direction matters.

If I say that 3am on Saturday is part of "Friday night", that's not very surprising.

If I say that 10pm on Monday is part of "Tuesday morning", that's quite surprising.

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