Re: CHAT: Day & month names (was: CHAT: Easter & the Saxon Calendar (was:Passover/Easter))

On First Life of Tenderness of first Red Cat Padraic Brown wrote:

> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Irina Rempt wrote:
>
> >Probably the fact that Friday is the holy day in Islam, like Saturday
> >for the Jews and Sunday for the Christians. Though the Sabbath is
> >still considered the *last* day of the week (Steg, or someone, am I
> >right?) and secular Western culture tends to put Sunday at the end of
> >the week as well, starting the (working) week on Monday. It's quite
> >hard to get a calendar that starts on Sunday!
>
> It's the only sort I've ever been able to find. They commonly start on
> Sunday in the US, even though most folk, as you say, consider Monday
> the first day of the week.
Ditto for Colombia.  I remember having trubble reading calendars in Sweden
begining on monday.

-- Carlos Th