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

Ray Depew (rrd@fc.hp.com)
24 Aug 1995 19:40:20 GMT

Lon Stowell (lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com) wrote:

: Dunno where Sunday as being the first day of the week came from.
: Certainly not the Xtians, unless their 'day of rest' was taken
: BEFORE the creation of this ludicrous rush-job universe.

This jackass is a perfect example of why people should read Usenet for
a while before they write anything to it. He's responding to the
tail end of a crossposted discussion where this question was already
answered twice.

Not only that, but encyclopedias aren't all that difficult to find, if
someone wants to find the answer to this question on his/her own time.

Ray