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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> writes:
> 
> > I would suggest one more small point WRT to:
> > 
> > type day_name_type is (mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun);
> 
> This (and month_name_type) seems very English 

Well, "begin" and "end" are English, too.  It seems to me that if you
want to print out day names in some other language, the program could
internallly use Sunday, Monday, etc, and then do a table lookup to find
the appropriate String to print.

> and abbreviated.

...and uses non-standard case.

- Bob