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From: Mike Barnes on 20 Feb 2010 18:50 Adam Funk <a24061(a)ducksburg.com>: >From man 5 crontab: > > When specifying day of week, both day 0 and day 7 will be > considered Sunday. BSD and AT&T seem to disagree about this. But they presumably agree that day one is Monday. (I found this convenient when programing my own calendar, in which the week starts on Monday.) -- Mike Barnes Cheshire, England
From: Androcles on 20 Feb 2010 19:40 "Adam Funk" <a24061(a)ducksburg.com> wrote in message news:47t557xq46.ln2(a)news.ducksburg.com... > On 2010-02-20, Brian M. Scott wrote: > >> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:49:14 -0000, Androcles >><Headmaster(a)Hogwarts.physics_u> wrote in >><news:mmNfn.9989$X_6.9098(a)newsfe22.ams2> in >> sci.math,sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.lang: >> >>> "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott(a)csuohio.edu> wrote in message >>> news:1s2uq5glt3lgu$.1m746rj1287gz$.dlg(a)40tude.net... > >>>> Don't be ridiculous: it's merely a convention. For many of >>>> us Monday is unquestionably the first day of the week. >> >>> Which day is Mittwoch >> >> The middle of the five-day work week. > > It should be renamed Wotanstag. Odin's, Wotan's, Woden's, Weden's, Wednesday, it's all the same in the Germanic languages. Now try it in the Latin languages... such as Portugooses. Domingo segunda-feira ter�a-feira quarta-feira quinta-feira sexta-feira s�bado and Italian Domenica luned� marted� mercoled� gioved� venerd� sabato Translation by http://uk.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt
From: Andrew Usher on 20 Feb 2010 19:41 Brian M. Scott wrote: > >> And trying to come up with a new calendar fixating on > >> Christmas is about as logical as fixating on Waitangi > >> Day. > > > This is just West-bashing. > > Don't be silly: New Zealand is part of the cultural west. But what the day commemorates is not. Andrew Usher
From: Andrew Usher on 20 Feb 2010 19:42 Brian M. Scott wrote: > > And the first day of the week is Sunday, not Monday - that > > is an incontrovertible fact. > > Don't be ridiculous: it's merely a convention. For many of > us Monday is unquestionably the first day of the week. It's historically true. No one questioned it before modern times. Andrew Usher
From: Antares 531 on 20 Feb 2010 19:54
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:42:12 -0800 (PST), Andrew Usher <k_over_hbarc(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Brian M. Scott wrote: > >> > And the first day of the week is Sunday, not Monday - that >> > is an incontrovertible fact. >> >> Don't be ridiculous: it's merely a convention. For many of >> us Monday is unquestionably the first day of the week. > >It's historically true. No one questioned it before modern times. > >Andrew Usher > The Hebrew/Jewish Jubilee Calendar, dating back to 4000 BC has always shown the First day as they currently interpret it. That is, the Seventh Day starts at sundown on the Roman Calendar Friday evening and ends at sundown on Saturday. The First day then starts as the Seventh day ends. The First day then is Saturday evening through Sunday evening. Gordon |