Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Wed, 17 Mar: > >what?! where?! are they moving it to a "civilian" date or > >fixed-day-of-the-week a-la the US conventions? makes sense for something > >like Thanksgiving, but moving Independance day around is odd, since the > >exact date has significance... > > > So, what date does the fourth of July happen this year?
oddly enough on July fourth. however memorial day (or rather, memorial weekend), Thanksgiving and I think even halloween, not to mention christian events like ash sunday and good friday, are often celebrated on "second sunday of february" or "last friday of September" and similar dynamic dates. -- A real character Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
