I used to live in Saudi Arabia and the weekend was on Thursday and
Friday (I don't know what calendar businesses used but I will ask my
father).
-ben
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:37:24AM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
>
> > Businesses in Israel, Iran and in the Arab world probably use a business
> > calendar based on the Hebrew, Jalali and Hijira calendars. It would be
> > nice if one module could be used for the Gregorian calendar and for
> > these three calendars.
>
> Actually, I'd guess they use a business calendar where the work week is
> still Monday - Friday (or through Saturday), but where _holidays_ are
> determined by a given religion, which in turn uses a different calendar.
>
> But nonetheless, days of the week and days of the month are still going to
> be Gregorian. I doubt that businesses in Israel refer to dates by the
> Hebrew calendar.
>
>
> -dave
>
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