Sunday/Moday (Re: Why not 13 months?)
Michael Bauser (islander@msen.com)
16 Aug 1995 01:02:57 -0400
Following-up from <URL:news://sci.anthropology>
In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950811201900.1061A-100000@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu>,
Jeffrey L Baker <jbaker@gas.uug.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, Richard S. Brice wrote:
>
> > The calendar on my desk, which is an ordinary business
> > calendar obtained from an ordinary office supply
> > store begins all weeks on Sunday. I don't ever remember
> > seeing a calendar that didn't.
> >
> > Of course calendars don't dictate when weeks must begin, but
> > they do indicate some degree of common wisdom.
> >
> > R. Brice
> > MCC Corp
>
> I've had several calendars that start the week on Monday. If Sunday
> is part of the weekEND, why should it also be the start of the week?
In no particular order,
1) A week (like a piece of string) can have two ends. Think hard.
2) Weeks-beginning-on-Mondays are more popular in Europe than the U.S.
cal(1) even has a switch for it. Let's not mess up sci.anthropology
with what might be a simple cultural difference.
3) Chill out, everybody!
4) Saturday? Sabbath? "On the seventh day"? Hello? Any church goers
in the audience? Ideology affects material culture -- where your
calendar starts may very well depend on the religion of the guy printing
the calendar. Or something like that.
Followups violently narrowed to sci.anthropology, because #2 & #4 actually
makes this discussion in-charter there. Thank God.
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