From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-17 22:45:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!beastie.ix.netcom.com!nobody From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:32:02 -0800 Organization: >> Leaf-Eating Penguins? << Message-ID: <2p4pta.ca4.ln@beastie.ix.netcom.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.01.3d Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Server-Date: 18 Dec 2002 06:50:21 GMT User-Agent: KNode/0.6.1 X-noarchive: yes Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32003 Date: 2002-12-18T06:50:21+00:00 List-Id: 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). -- > ============================================================== < > wlfraed@ix.netcom.com | Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG < > wulfraed@dm.net | Bestiaria Support Staff < > ============================================================== < > Bestiaria Home Page: http://www.beastie.dm.net/ < > Home Page: http://www.dm.net/~wulfraed/ <