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=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,34e6505a3616fb21 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-20 05:56:14 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Wilhelm.Spickermann@t-online.de (Wilhelm Spickermann) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: calander package - Proposal for dates Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:48:38 +0100 (CET) Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 985096230 17776 137.194.161.2 (20 Mar 2001 13:50:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:50:30 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Return-Path: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <3ab74130$1@pull.gecm.com> X-Sender: 0211750756-0001@t-dialin.net Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5895 Date: 2001-03-20T14:48:38+01:00 On 20-Mar-01 Martin Dowie wrote: > well, I can only spoke from a Church of Scotland (Christian, > Presbyterian) > background > but "on the 7th day he rested", making Monday the first day. :-) Exactly - but that day he rested was called sabbat(=saturday) :-) . The early christians held additional meetings on the first day of the week to celebrate the resurrection of christ (Matthew 28.1: (please excuse the bad translation, I don�t have an english bible) "When the sabbat was over and the first day of the week startet, Maria Magdalena and the other Maria came to view the grave."). When the first non-jews became christians, they were not obliged to hold the sabbat, and so sunday became the common holy day of christians. The idea was too, that the important thing from the genesis was having one day of rest every week and not on which exact day it should be held. Wilhelm