diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index d1b39ac..efcbcad 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,24 +1,26 @@
 Package: cdcfluview
 Type: Package
 Encoding: UTF-8
-Title: Retrieve 'U.S'. Flu Season Data from the 'CDC' 'FluView' Portal
+Title: Retrieve U.S. Flu Season Data from the CDC 'FluView' Portal
 Version: 0.8.0
-Date: 2018-09-16
+Date: 2018-11-23
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Bob", "Rudis", email = "bob@rud.is", role = c("aut", "cre"), 
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5670-2640")),
     person("Craig", "McGowan", email = "mcgowan.cj@gmail.com", role = "ctb",
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6298-0185")),
     person("JJ", "Chen", email = "jiajia.chern@gmail.com", role = "ctb",
-           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-8482-8398"))
+           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-8482-8398")),
+    person("Sebastian", "Meyer", email = "seb.meyer@fau.de", role = "ctb",
+           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-1791-9449"))
   )
 Maintainer: Bob Rudis <bob@rud.is>
-Description: The 'U.S.' Centers for Disease Control ('CDC') maintains a portal
-    <http://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/fluportaldashboard.html> for
+Description: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintain
+    a portal <http://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/fluportaldashboard.html> for
     accessing state, regional and national influenza statistics as well as
-    Mortality Surveillance Data. The web interface makes it difficult and 
+    mortality surveillance data. The web interface makes it difficult and
     time-consuming to select and retrieve influenza data. Tools are provided 
-    to access the data provided by the portal's underlying 'API'.
+    to access the data provided by the portal's underlying API.
 URL: https://github.com/hrbrmstr/cdcfluview
 BugReports: https://github.com/hrbrmstr/cdcfluview/issues
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 1b30c7e..ba47e3b 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-YEAR: 2015
+YEAR: 2015-2018
 COPYRIGHT HOLDER: Bob Rudis
diff --git a/R/mmwr-map.r b/R/mmwr-map.r
index 357d7bc..e603509 100644
--- a/R/mmwr-map.r
+++ b/R/mmwr-map.r
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@
 # @author Jarad Niemi \email{niemi@@iastate.edu}
 .start_date = function(year) {
   # Finds start state for this calendar year
-  jan1 = as.Date(paste(year, '-01-01', sep=''))
-  wday = as.numeric(MMWRweekday(jan1))
-  jan1 - (wday-1) + 7*(wday>4)
+  # Fix by @bastistician
+  jan1 <- as.Date(paste0(year, '-01-01'))
+  wday <- as.numeric(strftime(jan1, "%w"))  # Sunday is 0
+  jan1 - wday + 7*(wday>3)
 }
 
 # I discovered why 1962!: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6004a9.htm