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From: akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Joseph K. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Julian/Gregorian Conversions
Keywords: hp48sx julian, date standard
Message-ID: <27e9924e:2479.4comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 91 05:40:05 GMT
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Mats Ackerberger says "the week should start with Monday."

It's probably a religious thing.  "On the seventh day, God rested." And
that, we all know, was the "sabbath", or Saturday.  And "Early on the
first day of the week, Jesus rose from the dead."  And that, we all know,
was Easter Sunday.

Even though the modern concept of "weekend" is rapidly changing how we
envisage the calendar week, and surely the business week begins on Monday
in modern life, nevertheless old traditions die hard.

For this reasons, most algorithms call Sunday 0, Monday 1, and so on thru
Saturday which is 6.  Unfortunately, Jim Donnelly's DOW function calls
Sunday 7, which takes the "weekend" concept to its logical conclusion...

-Joe Horn-