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To be fair - I'm not sure how you can interpret the current definition the way the NZRFU have.
According to them June has 5 weekends!
A weekend is both Saturday and Sunday - a Sunday falling in June does not constitute a weekend.
That depends on the country. Some countries have Friday/Saturday weekends (Bahrain for example) and some have Thursday/Friday (Iran). Some have a six day working week with only one weekend day (India/Thailand)
I have always regarded the first weekend day to be the first weekend of any month. Our Pony Club rules say that "...unless otherwise arranged, the grounds committee shall meet on the Friday night immediately before the first weekend in any month" (next meeting is May 30th).
AIUI as far as the iRB is concerned, the first weekend of any month is the first one on which a Sunday falls
[TEXTAREA]Regulation 9.7 Global Release Periods
There are two Global Release Periods.
(a) The June window
The Right to Release for Matches shall apply to each of the senior
National Representative Team, the next senior National
Representative Team and the Under 20 National Representative
Team of a Union in respect of all International Matches, International
Tours and International Tournaments played over a period of three
weekends in June each year, save in a Rugby World Cup year,
during which year the June window shall not operate in respect of
Unions that qualified for the Rugby World Cup. Unless Council
approves otherwise the three weekends in June shall be the second,
third and fourth weekends.[/TEXTAREA]
By my reckoning The 2014 window runs from Saturday 7 June to Sunday 22 June.
ETAS - As usual, the iRB have not written the regulation very carefully.
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