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Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)
C.F. Hankel (s5cfh@csc.liv.ac.uk)
Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:10:05 GMT
In article <e_rmwm.278.000A2260@va.nmh.ac.uk>, e_rmwm@va.nmh.ac.uk (Roger
Musson) writes:
> In article <miuran.22.0@rd.hydro.on.ca> miuran@rd.hydro.on.ca (Mr. N. Miura)
> > writes:>Subject: Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)
> >From: miuran@rd.hydro.on.ca (Mr. N. Miura)
> >Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 15:32:01 GMT
>
> >In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950814112401.3551E-100000@cms1> Anthony Potts
> <potts@cern.ch> writes:>>From: Anthony Potts <potts@cern.ch>
> >>Subject: Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)
> >>Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 09:26:11 GMT
> >>
> >>
> >>On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, Helge Moulding wrote:
> >>
> >>> Why, where in the world are you from that a week starts with a Sunday?
> >>> Only the most clueless start the week on any day other than Monday.
> >>> Which means the thirteenth of each month is never Friday.
> >>> --
> >>> Helge Moulding
> >>>
> >>I am in England, here the week is taken as starting on a Sunday. When
> >>them chaps went westwards to the new world, they also used this idea. Are
> >>you saying that the idea has been changed, when, why?
> >>
> >>Yours questioningly,
> >>
> >>Anthony Potts
> >>
> >I am in Canada. Here calendars start on a Sunday, too. Once I was given a
> >calendar in which the weeks started on a Monday by some reason. It was so
> >difficult to use and posed a potential disaster of mistaking the day of
> >the week, I threw it away..............
>
> >Nobby Miura
>
> This is getting silly, however ...
>
> Although calendars start the week on a Sunday, diaries start the week on a
> Monday. How strange the ways of Man.
Ah, is that Isle of Man? Anything with three legs just has to be peculiar.
Charles
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