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From: ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.atari.st,sci.astro
Subject: Re: Calendar Layout Around the World
Message-ID: <716@Aragorn.dde.dk>
Date: 24 Oct 89 08:55:38 GMT
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Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark
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terrell@cadnetix.COM writes:

>I have another question, about calendars:  which day should be in the
>leftmost column?  Is Sunday always in the leftmost column everywhere?  Is
>Sunday always in the leftmost column in the USA?  If the answer is no -
>which other day(s) should be in the leftmost column:  Monday? Just
>Monday?

I believe there is an international standard (made some time in the
mid-1970s) stating that the first day of the week is Monday.

Very un-Biblical.

As usual, the English-speaking countries have decided not to follow
the international standard. :-) I don't blame them, this one is quite
silly.
-- 
Claus Tondering
Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark
E-mail: ct@dde.dk    or    ...!uunet!mcvax!dkuug!dde!ct