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From: mbr@aoa.UUCP (Mark Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re:  Sundays
Message-ID: <354@aoa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 16:54:55 EST
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In article <10@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) writes:
>This discussion in SILLY.  What name the "first" day
>of the week has is a matter of CONVENTION.  So is the
>number of days in a week, which is not even based on
>an astronomical periodicity.

Not even based on an astronomical periodicity?  How about phases of the moon?
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	Mark of the Valley of Roses
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