Talking about cultures, we need to think about notions of time across cultures before we talk about calendars. The eastern notion of time, for instance, is cyclical as compared to a linear sense of time that the west has. Although, this might not have a deep impact on placing a conference reminder on the calendar, it could have on a birthday reminder or more so on a comet sighting reminder that may live its second coming.. more so if the application is strong enough to cling to for years and if it has legacy notions (why can't we transfer our calendars to our kids?)...
Add to it Lunar calendars and solar calendars and the doomsday... do we have an integration with the Mayan calendar which has a defined non-future beyond 2012? We need to dissociate ambitious notions of adapting to cultures and be specific in our goals? If all we need is something that helps us remember the milk, its a completely different debate!.. And yes, people in general (IMHO) don't think so much in sequentially occuring placeholders such as weekends, but more in terms of events... a year passes by not just between jan 1st and dec 31st, but between moments worth remembering, between more human organic placeholders such as your daugther's birthday or your first day at your new job... On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Ricardo Couto <[email protected]>wrote: > > People don't think in months, they think in > > weeks. > > its not true. specially with different cultures of yours. > > I am brazilian. In brazil the people dont think in weeks. absolutely not. > I already saw some people asking what "that number" beside of the week > means. > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
