From: Wes Groleau <wwgrol@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Ada95 calendar package question
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:33:07 -0500
Date: 2001-06-28T09:33:07-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B3B4023.F2DB16A7@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9hfap0$l1v$1@nh.pace.co.uk
> Well, this would make sense given - as I observed - that the Sunday=First
> Day thingie came out of the Jewish observation of the Sabbath. It would be
> logical for Israel to have Friday/Saturday as the weekend. There may, of
> course, be practical considerations for those doing international
> business...
>
> > Obviously Saturady is not a working day here for religious reasons (yep,
> we
> > are Jewish). Funny thing is that when we moved to a five day work week, we
> > made Friday part of the weekend, and not Sunday...
Since the Sabbath begins at sundown on the Gentile Friday, to work a full day
on Friday could make things rather rushed before sundown--which would kind of
go against the spirit of the Sabbath.
--
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-27 0:54 Ada95 calendar package question Vladimir Bednikov
2001-06-27 3:44 ` James Rogers
2001-06-27 8:32 ` Peter Hermann
2001-06-27 13:01 ` James Rogers
2001-06-27 14:01 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-27 13:24 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-27 13:59 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-27 14:36 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-27 15:17 ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-27 15:43 ` Frank
2001-06-27 16:07 ` Aron Felix Gurski
2001-06-27 15:59 ` Philip Anderson
2001-06-27 16:20 ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-27 17:39 ` M. A. Alves
2001-06-27 18:23 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-27 14:38 ` Noé Lavallée
2001-06-27 14:32 ` Ian Wild
2001-06-27 22:37 ` Ehud Lamm
2001-06-28 13:17 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-28 14:33 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2001-06-28 20:38 ` Ehud Lamm
2001-06-28 11:27 ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-06-28 14:17 ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-28 14:49 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-28 16:28 ` M. A. Alves
2001-06-27 14:56 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-06-27 13:14 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-27 14:24 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-06-28 1:57 ` Jeffrey Carter
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2001-06-27 16:44 ` David C. Hoos
2001-06-28 8:29 ` Philip Anderson
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2001-06-27 20:39 Beard, Frank
2001-06-27 21:25 ` Larry Hazel
2001-06-27 21:55 Beard, Frank
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