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From: news01+Steven.Murdoch@cl.cam.ac.uk (Steven Murdoch)
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Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
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In article <9DKL9.380955$P31.141586@rwcrnsc53>,
 tmoran@acm.org writes:
>  "And on the seventh day He rested" suggests Sunday should be last and
>Monday first.  OTOH, both moon and sun are mere astronomical objects,
>whereas Thor was a god, so clearly Thursday should be first. ;)

ISO 8601 defines the first day of the week to be Monday, and this practice
is also quite widespread (it is the convention in the UK and much of Europe)

Also ISO 8601 defines Monday to be day 1 and Sunday to be day 7 so I would
suggest forcing the representation to be 1..7, if this is not what
the languge defaults to. This also makes many of the date processing
functions slightly easier to understand.

See:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
for more information.

Steven Murdoch.