Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ho95e.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!ho95e!wcs From: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill.Stewart.4K435.x0705) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.internat,net.nlang Subject: Re: Sundays Message-ID: <262@ho95e.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 00:17:53 EST Article-I.D.: ho95e.262 Posted: Mon Nov 25 00:17:53 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 28-Nov-85 07:48:01 EST References: <174@watmath.UUCP> Reply-To: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill Stewart ( 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs )) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 31 Xref: watmath net.unix:6399 net.internat:96 net.nlang:3801 In article <174@watmath.UUCP> ddyment@watmath.UUCP (Doug Dyment) writes: > >> For several hundred years sunday has been the first day of the >>week. Look at any calandar[sic]. >> > For several thousand years Sunday has been the last day of the >week. Look at any bible. > Funny, my Bible refers to the Sabbath, but it doesn't use the modern names, which are mostly of pagan European origin. However, the Jews, for whom the Sabbath is a way of life, still think Saturday is the Sabbath, and I doubt they'd have gotten it wrong. There are early records from the Romans which refer to Christians getting together on the *first* day of the week for their meetings, i.e. Sunday, in honor of the resurrection. Gradually this absorbed many of the Sabbath traditions (most early Christians *were* Jewish), and many groups have treated Sunday as the Sabbath; others, such as the Seventh-Day Adventists, point out that the Sabbath is still Saturday. I get the impression that renumbering the days of the week so they start with Monday is a recent European rationalization of "Sunday is our Sabbath so it must be the 7th day of the week"; customary usage in the USA is that the week starts on Sunday, whereas I remember learning the days of the week in French as ", ..." (Sorry, but I never could spell them) Bill Arrgh! An electrical virus is eating my terminal! -- ## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs