Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)

Rodney East (east@aps.anl.gov)
21 Aug 1995 20:54:16 GMT

wtho@ciba-geigy.ch (Tom Hofmann) wrote:
>The "7th day when he rested" is the Sabbath, i.e. Saturday (look
>at Israel). Early Christians began to worship on the first day of

As I understand it the Christians continued to worship on Saturday (many
early christians were Jews) for many many years. It wasn't until Near
the time of Constitine that they changed to Sunday.

>the week (Sunday) instead of Sabbath, since Jesus resurrected on
>the first day of the week. So again: week starts on Sunday.
>