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

Nik Taylor wrote:

>Roger Mills wrote:
And I guess should have had smileys and frownies all over the place.

>> Yes, so our calendars would have us believe.  But we all know that Monday
>> (aargh) is the first day.
>
>Monday's the second day for me.
>
>> Just numbering the days 1-7 not a good solution.  Millions of Moslems,
Jews
>> and some Christians hold Saturday, most Christians Sunday, as the end of
the
>> week.
>
>Big deal.  If someone's so touchy that they'd get offended at the wrong
>day being called first, then there'd be no way to satisfy them.  I
>consider Sunday first, but it's not like I couldn't get used to calling
>it the seventh day!>
No big deal to you, and certainly not to me.  In my retired state, I have a
hard time telling one day from another in any case.  But I do think the
Pope, various rabbis, imams, mullahs etc. would look askance at any
tinkering with their Sabbath and its name, whatever day it falls on.

Of course, an easy way around this would be to abolish all religions.
__:-)__

>> Perhaps we could adapt the Portuguese system-- Work-day 1 thru 5 or 6,
>
>In Portuguese, Monday is _Segunda Feira_ "Second Day">
"adapt" I said, not "adopt".

>But the problem there is that we'd be tying the week to a specific work
>week.  What if that changes, so that people begin working four-day
>weeks, or begin working six-day weeks?
Well, ah, yes, that's one of the problems.  Renaming the days is IMHO not a
particularly useful project, unless we're aiming for
one-big-happy-family-world, which doesn't seem likely to happen soon.  And
if it does happen, nobody will much care what the days are called, as long
as everyone shows up on the right day at the right time to do their bit for
McPfizer-Morgan-Exxon-Cola Inc.
>
>> At least here we could go 1-12 without offending anyone except those who
>> persist in following the lunar calendar.......
>
>But these names would be for the Gregorian calendar ... so what's the
>problem with lunar calendars?>

l3 months, and not starting on (Greg.) 1/1.  Moslems and Jews, if they are
at all involved with the outside world, thus have to keep track of two
systems.  I've never had to, but would think it could give rise to
oversights, slip-ups and  mistakes.

I could go for 10 months of 36 days, with an extra holiday every 2 months
(and one more, at midyear?, in leap years.)

(As I've said before, I need to develop a little elephant-like emoticon to
mark my humor........)  SO~  ?

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