Re: Ada95 calendar package question

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

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...

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"Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote in message
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> Marin David Condic <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> wrote in
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> > Sorry, Peter. It isn't. Historically, Sunday is the first day of the
week.
> > Practically, people treat Monday as the first day of the week because
> that's
> > the day we all go back to work.
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> Well, y'all may start your work week on Mondays, but here in Israel we
start
> working on Sunday...
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> 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...
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