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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Ada95 calendar package question
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:17:54 GMT
Date: 2001-06-27T15:17:54+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <COm_6.699$f4.8419@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9hcr23$o0d$1@nh.pace.co.uk

In article <9hcr23$o0d$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>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?

Probably about the time Seventh-day Adventists starting knocking on their doors
like they do here. :-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-27 15:17 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
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
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
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106271731050.8027-100000@borba.ncc.up.pt>
2001-06-27 16:44 ` David C. Hoos
2001-06-28  8:29   ` Philip Anderson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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