November 6, 2019 Javier Eguiluz

How many weeks are in a year? If you ask around, most people will tell 52 , but the right answer would be: 52 or 53 , depending on the year. To be precise, an average year is exactly 52.1775 weeks long, and that excess accumulates until a year is given an extra week.

For example, the most recent year with 53 weeks was 2015. December 31st 2015 is considered part of the Week 53 of 2015 (formally, 2015-W53 ), and January 1st 2016 is also considered part of the Week 53 of 2015. In contrast, both December 31st 2019 and January 1st 2020 are considered part of the Week 1 of 2020 (formally, 2020-W01 ).

All this is defined in the ISO 8601 standard and it's one of the many confusing behaviors you'll find when working with dates. This is also something that Symfony should solve for you so you can focus on more important things.

In Symfony 4.4, we've added a new WeekType form field that allows users to modify data that represents a specific ISO 8601 week number:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\WeekType ; $builder -> add ( 'startDateTime' , WeekType :: class , [ // use this if you store week numbers as strings ('2011-W17') 'input' => 'string' , // use this if you store week numbers as arrays (e.g. [2011, 17]) 'input' => 'array' , // renders two <select> to select the year and week number 'widget' => 'choice' , // renders two <input type="text"> to write the year and week number 'widget' => 'text' , // renders a <input type="week"> which is properly rendered by most browsers 'widget' => 'single_text' , ]);