Advantages
- All weeks have an integral number of days (i.e. there are no fractional weeks).
- All years have an integral number of weeks.
- The date directly tells the weekday.
- All week-numbering years start with a Monday and end with a Sunday.
- When used by itself without using the concept of month, all week-numbering years are the same except that some years have a week 53 at the end.
- The weeks are the same as used with the Gregorian calendar.
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