wish: Choose which day of the week begins a fortnight

[Neal Haas]

The new Date Filters are great! I am especially intrigued by the utility of the fortnight.

I would like to be able to change the day of the week the fortnight begins. Currently, they always begin on Monday, but I think it could be a useful setting to be able to adjust this. I was thinking a good way to do it would be with a dropdown menu. [Sun, Mon, Tues, Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat, 1st of the year] That last one would be my preference.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

Well, I included this because I've seen it into Quicken, and wanted to be as complete as possible with the new quick date selector but wonder also if it is useful as well, probably very few manage their finance with 2 week slices.

And as for monday I choose to follow ISO 8601. And in any case it make sense to begin with the first day of the week, and nothing else.

[Neal Haas (nh3456)]

It's nice that you are keeping up with features from "competitors". I appreciate that! I had never heard of ISO 8601, but now I am more familiar with it and I can understand the appeal of complying with established standards. I understand if you want to move this to 'incomplete'.

You are probably also correct that few people manage their finances on 2-week slices. As it happens, I am one of those people. I live in the U.S. and my spouse and I are paid on 2-week cycles, so I prefer to look at things that way. Changes to income and expenses are easily comparable across slices. Yes, there is always a 1 or 2 day "slice" at the end of the year, but it is relatively easy to ignore for trends/averages.

I wanted to see if I could adopt 8601 and one way that it will bite me in the future is when my spouse will get paid on Wed, Dec 31, 2025. That income will be earned in 2025 but it is ISO 2026-W1-3. So, it throws off the numbers for taxes and deductions for tax-advantaged accounts. I should note that I copy the Income/Expense totals for each fortnight into a separate spreadsheet for forecasting.

Again, I agree that it feels awkward to have a non-standard way of delimiting weeks/fortnights, but having the option to make ISO YYYY-W1-1 align with Jan 1, YYYY would make my life easier. Please consider it.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

this is something a large majority of user won't need