Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site lll-crg.ARpA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!lll-crg!bandy From: bandy@lll-crg.ARpA (Andrew Scott Beals) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.nlang Subject: Re: Sundays Message-ID: <1075@lll-crg.ARpA> Date: Thu, 28-Nov-85 09:43:34 EST Article-I.D.: lll-crg.1075 Posted: Thu Nov 28 09:43:34 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 29-Nov-85 11:08:08 EST References: <174@watmath.UUCP> <262@ho95e.UUCP> Reply-To: bandy@lll-crg.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals) Organization: Computation Research Group, Lawrence Livermore Labs Lines: 24 Keywords: National Bureau of Standards(usa) Xref: watmath net.unix:6426 net.nlang:3812 In article <262@ho95e.UUCP> wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill Stewart ( 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs )) writes: >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. >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) If I remember correctly, the National Bureau of Standards published a standard some time ago that calendars should be marked with Monday as the first day of the week. -- There once was a fellow named Moorehead, Who had an affair with a warhead. His wife moved away The very next day-- She /was/ always kind of a sorehead. andy beals - bandy@lll-crg.arpa - {seismo,ihnp4!sun,dual}!lll-crg!bandy