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From: Androcles on 21 Feb 2010 20:27 "alan" <in_flagrante(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:hlsls1$294$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > "Androcles" <Headmaster(a)Hogwarts.physics_u> wrote > > >> Observing the planets as gods goes back to prehistory >> and are the basis of the seven day week. > > The strcit 7 day week actually had its origins with the Jews. IN FACT the seven day week ACTUALLY has its origin in prehistory, as I've explained. <courtesy of the snip returned>
From: Brian M. Scott on 21 Feb 2010 20:36 On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:27:05 -0000, Androcles <Headmaster(a)Hogwarts.physics_u> wrote in <news:U3lgn.67724$3E5.39843(a)newsfe18.ams2> in sci.math,sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.lang: > "alan" <in_flagrante(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:hlsls1$294$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> "Androcles" <Headmaster(a)Hogwarts.physics_u> wrote >>> Observing the planets as gods goes back to prehistory >>> and are the basis of the seven day week. >> The strcit 7 day week actually had its origins with the Jews. > IN FACT the seven day week ACTUALLY has its origin in > prehistory, as I've explained. [...] In fact you've done nothing of the kind: you've made an unsupported assertion.
From: Brian M. Scott on 21 Feb 2010 20:38 On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:15:36 +0800, Robert Bannister <robban1(a)bigpond.com> wrote in <news:7ue45oF7eoU6(a)mid.individual.net> in sci.math,sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.lang,alt.usage.english: [...] > Why is not having days outside the week important? [...] On that one he actually has a case: many adherents of three major religions would object strenuously to anything that broke the seven-day cycle. Brian
From: Peter Moylan on 21 Feb 2010 20:46 Cheryl wrote: > Andrew Usher wrote: >> The reason I fix Christmas to a Sunday has been my observation that >> arranging a family Christmas is substantially more convenient when it >> falls on a weekend than in the middle of the week. Given that >> Christmas is the most important holiday in the year, should we not all >> get at least a 3-day weekend, which we have for lesser holidays? > > The thing is that depending on your job, local holidays (eg whether > Boxing Day is included) and the fact that New Year's Day comes so > closely after Christmas Day, judicious use of annual leave days can give > much more than three days in a row off if Christmas Day itself is mid-week. For that and related reasons, many businesses in Australia close down in the week between Christmas and New Year. So many employees are missing that they might as well save their running costs. > I would have thought that the summer holidays were far more important Well, of course, and that's the whole point of Christmas. It would be no fun if you had it in the winter. -- Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org For an e-mail address, see my web page.
From: Peter Moylan on 21 Feb 2010 20:57
Andrew Usher wrote: > And I moved the start of the week numbering to August from Nov. 1 so > that the academic year and the US football season would be on the > fixed schedule, and I think there can be no objection to that. Aha. Now I understand an aspect of your proposal that hadn't been clear to me. You're proposing different calendars for different countries, right? An interesting idea. While you're at it, though, why not have the academic year line up with the calendar year, the way we do it here? Making an academic year straddle two calendar years sounds just plain silly. True, there are good historical reasons for it, but if you're going to modify the calendar anyway you might as well fix the glaring problems too. -- Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org For an e-mail address, see my web page. |