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

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 24, 2001, 21:40
Hi!

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! :-) **Henrik