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From: "Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada95 calendar package question
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:36:50 -0400
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Well, its been discussed here before. Like I said, there is a certain amount
of arbitrariness to it - make Wednesday be the first day if you like - but I
don't think it is inaccurate to point out that *historically*, Sunday is the
first day of the week and any other convention is ignoring a lot of history.
One can ignore history at one's own risk. :-)

Odd that it was Roman calendars (European) that pretty much set Sunday as
the first day of the week and now the Europeans don't use this convention
while the US still does. When was it Europe decided to pitch their own
standard?

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"Wes Groleau" <wwgrol@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> wrote in message
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>
> > To a large extent, its pretty much an arbitrary and capricious choice as
to
> > which day is "first" - but I think you'll find most calendars adhere to
the
> > Sunday/First convention.
>
> There is now winding down a long (both in duration and number of posts)
> argument on this issue in alt.usage.english or alt.english.usage
> Apparently, many if not most calendars in Europe start with Monday.
>
> --
> Wes Groleau
> http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau