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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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: 2002-12-18 10:54:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!HSNX.atgi.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3E00BF83.3060301@most.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@most.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:33:39 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1040236420 151.168.133.155 (Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:33:40 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:33:40 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32045 Date: 2002-12-18T13:33:39-05:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > I believe it calls the seventh day "sabbath". That it does. But to insist that our Saturday is exactly a multiple of seven days from that Sabbath is to insist that the Jews never lost count through all their dispersions and returnings. Or anyone else before or since. Which I suppose is possible. Personally, I believe Noah lost count after about eighty days on the ark. :-)