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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: calander package - Proposal for dates
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:25:48 GMT
Date: 2001-03-20T15:25:48+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0EKt6.1859$94.2556@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3ab74130$1@pull.gecm.com

In article <3ab74130$1@pull.gecm.com>, Martin Dowie says...
>
>well, I can only spoke from a Church of Scotland (Christian, Presbyterian)
>background
>but "on the 7th day he rested", making Monday the first day. :-)

Actually, in this country (if not in others), the "7th Day Adventists" use
similar logic to claim that Saturday is the true sabbath, not Sunday. I'm not a
theological historian, so I don't know if they have a case or not.

Boy we are getting far afield here, and without Dr. Dewar to nag us about it
too. :-(

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-03-20 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-16  8:49 calander package - Proposal for dates Christoph Grein
2001-03-16 17:21 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-17  2:55 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-03-17 10:16   ` Pascal Obry
2001-03-17 18:11     ` Ehud Lamm
2001-03-19 14:26       ` Ted Dennison
2001-03-19 17:30         ` Ehud Lamm
2001-03-20  6:30       ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-03-20 11:45         ` Martin Dowie
2001-03-20 13:48           ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-03-21 13:37             ` John English
2001-03-20 14:15           ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-20 15:25           ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-03-21  8:11             ` calendar,day_name Peter Hermann
2001-03-19 15:52     ` GNAT.Calendar Mario Amado Alves
2001-03-19 15:54       ` GNAT.Calendar Florian Weimer
2001-03-19 22:03     ` calander package - Proposal for dates Jeffrey Carter
2001-03-20 18:34       ` Pascal Obry
2001-03-20 23:01         ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-03-21  8:17           ` Pascal Obry
2001-03-19 16:07   ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-19 17:24     ` Ted Dennison
2001-03-19 17:34       ` Ehud Lamm
     [not found] <200103160849.JAA00680@bulgaria.otn.eurocopter.de>
2001-03-16  9:31 ` Hans-Olof Danielsson
2001-03-17 20:18   ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-03-24  6:27   ` David Thompson
     [not found] <000201c0ae3b$b27cca00$039697d4@d1>
2001-03-16 23:46 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
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2001-03-19  6:50 Christoph Grein
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