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From: jo@epistemi.UUCP (Jo Calder)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.internat
Subject: Re: crontab: Sunday=7, not 0.
Message-ID: <354@epistemi.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 30-Nov-85 07:19:01 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 30 07:19:01 1985
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In article <947@rlvd.UUCP> mike@rlvd.UUCP (Mike Woods) writes:
>
>For at least the last two and a half thousand years Sunday has been
>the first day of the week. How on Earth can ISO decide to run
>counter to the whole (well almost) of humanity and announce that
>Monday is the "standard" first day of the week. I find this somewhat
>pathetic.
>
>Mike Woods.
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Try telling that to the Chinese.  There are considerably
more of them than there are USENET users, and they all say
a rough equivalent of 

week1   ...... week6 	  
Monday         Saturday

Sunday doesn't follow the above pattern, but then nothing
is perfect.

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