bits 0x35 - Calender Week 01, 2024

§§§ The numbering of the new year.

I started writing weekly journal with a hexcounting starting from 0x2a, the 42nd week of the year 2023, the week I started. Obviously I forgot about the trivial: what if the year turns?

If the hex number indicates the week then I should roll over, like, using an offset and a base:

• 0x002a: 42nd week of 2023
• 0x012a: 42nd week of 2024

This would make archiving easier a multi-year span – can I keep blogging for that long?

Or this:

• 0x34: the 52nd week of 2023
• 0x35: the 1st week of 2024

In which case the numbering serves no semantic meaning except for the year 2023; but it’s continuous and there is no additional convention imposed.

Ok, anyways, as you can see I’m going with the latter.

§§§ Learns

I finally got the motive to learn about IPv6, at least the addressing – because the VPS provider of my email server messed up the reverse DNS PTR.