Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

Robert A Duff fed this fish to the penguins on Tuesday 17 December 2002 
06:09 pm:

> I believe it calls the seventh day "sabbath".
> I don't know if that's a name or a description or both.
> But it's certainly the same day we call "saturday"
> in the United States.  If you think it's referring to
> what we call "sunday", I think you must have lost count
> somewhere in the last few thousand years.  ;-)
>
        Shall we add the minor confusion that, in many cultures, the "day" 
began at /sunset/ (hence such things as "Christmas eve", 
"Halloween"[aka All Hallows Eve] -- even though the calendar is labeled 
Dec 24, once the sun set, the /next/ day was considered to have 
started: Christmas).

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