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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-17 08:37:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsr1.ipcore.viaginterkom.de!btnet-peer1!btnet-peer0!btnet-peer!btnet!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <3DF1615C.7AAAC86E@adaworks.com> <3DF8D33F.9020205@cogeco.ca> <3DFE1D97.6020109@cogeco.ca> <3DFF46F9.9060703@cogeco.ca> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:37:28 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.195.52.70 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1040143059 80.195.52.70 (Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:37:39 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:37:39 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31968 Date: 2002-12-17T16:37:28+00:00 List-Id: On 17/12/02 16:26, in article atnj76$c7n$1@news.uni-stuttgart.de, "Peter Hermann" wrote: > > I personally very much prefer the Monday to be first > because it is more practical, e.g. > subtype working_day_type is day_type range mon..fri; > Sunday-first does not prevent you declaring this subtype. What it would do is require a range check for the working-day predicate, instead of the single comparison with Monday-first. > I only can vote for monday in a democracy ;-) > i.e. I do not want to ignite a flame war with > people from different cultures. > We had these discussions several times and we did not > find consensus. So my hope is in favor of M=1 :-) > Well, if M is Monday, then you actually favour M=0! Is this issue the calendrical equivalent of big- vs little-endianism? 8-) -- Bill-Findlay chez blue-yonder.co.uk ("-" => "")