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From: Cheryl on 22 Feb 2010 08:00 Peter T. Daniels wrote: > On Feb 22, 7:14 am, Cheryl <cperk...(a)mun.ca> wrote: >> Peter T. Daniels wrote: >>> What "religious holiday" does "Mid-July" accommodate? >> I was thinking St. George's Day, but when I checked, it was Orangemen's >> Day. > > I grew up in a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian church in NYC, and I recall > Orangemen's Day as being August 5. I didn't learn what it commemorated > until I'd left for college, and was not happy. > > The congregation lnog ago became Hispanic, and merged with a > neighboring Presbyterian church, but the building was made a NYC > landmark last year. > July 12, or Monday nearest. Of course, holidays can and do shift, so maybe the authorities in New York re-scheduled it. Since it wasn't a school holiday, or rather, occurred during the shool holidays, Orangeman's Day was of minimal interest to me as a child. At that time, some rural communities still had the annual parade with King William riding on a white horse at the head of it, but that wasn't a tradition in my home town, and I didn't even hear of it until I was an adult living elsewhere. By that time, I think the tradition had died out entirely, but the holiday wasn't taken off the government list until later. Fortunately, we'd managed to abandon the Protestant-Catholic violence associated with the event well before we lost the parade led by the man on the white horse. I don't know how I managed to conflate it with St. George's Day. Maybe because they're both associated with Protestants. I really like July & August, though. We start the last week in June celebrating St. John the Baptist Day because that's the official founding date of the city I live in. Then there's July 1, both Canada Day and the memorial day for the Newfoundland soldiers who died in WW I. Next comes the mid-July holiday, and then we have to work for a couple of weeks until our August municipal holiday, which in my municipality is usually in the first week of August. And my workplace closes for all of them. But we still lack a February holiday, unless we have a big enough snowstorm. -- Cheryl
From: James Hogg on 22 Feb 2010 08:05 Peter T. Daniels wrote: > On Feb 22, 7:14 am, Cheryl <cperk...(a)mun.ca> wrote: >> Peter T. Daniels wrote: >>> On Feb 21, 4:17 pm, Cheryl <cperk...(a)mun.ca> wrote: >>>> Peter T. Daniels wrote: >>>>> On Feb 21, 10:59 am, Mike Barnes <mikebar...(a)bluebottle.com> wrote: >>>>>> Yusuf B Gursey <y...(a)theworld.com>: >>>>>>> On Feb 19, 11:25 am, Mike Barnes <mikebar...(a)bluebottle.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> But I thought that for most people the whole point of Easter is that >>>>>>>> they get time off work. >>>>>>> not in the US, at least not in my state. >>>>>> So I now understand. Here in England, Friday and Monday are holidays, >>>>>> and school terms fit around them. That's the problem with Easter. I >>>>>> think it's fair to say that many people here would be happy if they >>>>>> fixed the dates of the public holidays (e.g. second weekend in April) >>>>>> and allowed the holy day to shift as it will. I don't if or why >>>>>> disconnecting them would matter to anyone. >>>>> That's because you're stuck with a state religion. >>>>> In NYC, parking regulations are suspended for just about anyone's >>>>> religious holidays. >>>> Hey, we get to take some religious holidays (Christmas Day and Good >>>> Friday) off work even without a state religion! I'm ecumenical; I'd take >>>> ANY religious holidays. I suspect that there's some rule that you have >>>> to be a member of the religion in question in order to not work that >>>> aren't also legal or secular holidays, but that could be fixed by making >>>> them ALL legal holidays. My home province ended up cancelling some of >>>> the religious (ie Christian) holidays from the list of legal days off in >>>> the interests of increased productivity, but some workers still have the >>>> old list embodied in their contracts. Now, of course, some of them get >>>> "Mid-March" and "Mid-July" off rather than religious holidays. >>> What "religious holiday" does "Mid-July" accommodate? >> I was thinking St. George's Day, but when I checked, it was Orangemen's >> Day. > > I grew up in a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian church in NYC, and I recall > Orangemen's Day as being August 5. I didn't learn what it commemorated > until I'd left for college, and was not happy. 5 August must have been the celebration of the Battle of Otterburn. -- James
From: Adam Funk on 22 Feb 2010 08:17 On 2010-02-21, António Marques wrote: > On Feb 21, 1:09 am, Andrew Usher <k_over_hb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> But 0 is the start of computer indexing - at least in real programs. 0 >> = Sunday. > > Ahem. In low level, pointer oriented languages such as C and its > family. And those who chose to imitate it. From Verity Stob's "Thirteen Ways to Loathe VB": 4. Another thing about arrays. The index of the first element is 0, unless it is set to 1 by a directive. 5. But there are also collections, modern object-oriented versions of arrays. And the first element of these is usually 1, unless it happens to be 0. Sometimes it is 0 and sometimes it is 1, depending on where you found it. Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do ya? -- I don't know what they have to say It makes no difference anyway; Whatever it is, I'm against it! [Prof. Wagstaff]
From: J. Clarke on 22 Feb 2010 08:42 On 2/22/2010 3:34 AM, R H Draney wrote: > Transfer Principle filted: >> >> The notion of calendar reform has appeared on sci.math from time >> to time. Some people may argue that the debate between those who >> defend the standard Gregorian calendar and those who wish to >> reform it is analogous to the debate between the standard set >> theorists and the so-called "cranks." I'd argue that calendar >> reform would fit Underwood Dudley's "eccentric" category more >> than the "crank" category. > > If you want a crank, find the person who came up with Daylight Saving Time.... > > Then find his successor who decided that DST should apply for more of the year > than "Standard" time....r And if they are still alive, feed them to the pigs, slowly.
From: jmfbahciv on 22 Feb 2010 09:44
jimp(a)specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > In sci.physics jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: >> Andrew Usher wrote: >>> Mike Barnes wrote: >>>> 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. >>> But 0 is the start of computer indexing - at least in real programs. 0 >>> = Sunday. >>> >> Where do you get that idea? >> >> /BAH > > From crontab and array indexes. > > Depends on the machine's architecture and the implementation of a language. Most HLLs would not index through 0 since that isn't the "obvious" first item in a list. People who don't know machine language think of the first item on a list as 1, not 0. and then there are the backwards methods of counting through arrays and those that start with a negative. /BAH |