From: "Frank" <franjoe@frisurf.no>
Subject: Re: Ada95 calendar package question
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:43:18 +0200
Date: 2001-06-27T17:43:18+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pbn_6.589$tD1.53342@news3.oke.nextra.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9hcr23$o0d$1@nh.pace.co.uk
Hi!
>
> 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?
It probably because God took the seventh day off, and looked upon everything
...
Another unalignment I have seen between Europe and US/America is the way the
weeks are counted/numbered.
:-)
Frank
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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
2001-06-27 15:43 ` Frank [this message]
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
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2001-06-27 16:44 ` David C. Hoos
2001-06-28 8:29 ` Philip Anderson
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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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