Re: Naming days of the week and months of the year????

Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
>Muke Tever <alrivera@...> writes:
> > Isn't it so that the first day of the week is Sunday in America but
>Monday
> > in European countries?  [So print media leads me to believe.]
>
>Yes, I'm convinced now.  This is confusing me, too.  I hate American
>computers that refuse to start the week on monday.  The first thing I
>used to do under a new Linux installation was compile a new calender
>program until other people made the standard distribution have a -m
>option (for monday, obviously).
>
>So, yes.  For week days, I'd now vote against numbers.
>
> > If so a [global] day-by-number system would either have to resynchronize
>the
> > week or end up looking odd, like how we call the twelfth month the tenth
> > ['December']..
>
>Because I hope all languages agree in the (modern) month numbers, I'd
>still vote to enumerate them.
>
>And make clocks have 24 hours.  Let that be grammatical! :-)
'Course, that'd only apply to "civilian" clocks (or whatever you call 'em in
English - they show synodical time)! Astronomical clocks have sideric days
of about 23h56m. So please don't make the word for "day" analyeable as
"thing with 24 (hours) in" ...

                                                          Andreas
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