I suppose he means: "... despite the fact that 6 of the 7 days are in 2004".
The problem here is that the default definition for week() is: "The first week in the year is the week that contains Jan. 1".
>The week is 7 days.
>
>>With six days???
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>>>>Why WEEK({^2004-12-31}) return 1 instead of 53
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>>>Because this date belongs to the first week of 2005?
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