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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,34e6505a3616fb21 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-21 06:16:13 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!ldn-newsfeed.speedport.net!newsfeed.speedport.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: calander package - Proposal for dates Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:37:58 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3AB8AEB6.F014E8F5@bton.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 985181849 20869 193.62.183.204 (21 Mar 2001 13:37:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Mar 2001 13:37:29 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5964 Date: 2001-03-21T13:37:29+00:00 List-Id: Wilhelm Spickermann wrote: > > On 20-Mar-01 Martin Dowie wrote: > > 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. :-) > > Exactly - but that day he rested was called sabbat(=saturday) :-) . The > early christians held additional meetings on the first day of the week > to celebrate the resurrection of christ (Matthew 28.1: (please excuse > the bad translation, I don�t have an english bible) "When the sabbat was > over and the first day of the week startet, Maria Magdalena and the > other Maria came to view the grave."). When the first non-jews became > christians, they were not obliged to hold the sabbat, and so sunday > became the common holy day of christians. The idea was too, that the > important thing from the genesis was having one day of rest every > week and not on which exact day it should be held. As an atheist, I'm a complete agnostic on this particular subject... ;-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------