On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:45:31AM -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> I'm still working on "when is this Sunday", which is going to be a bit
> tricky. ISO 8601 defines the week starting on Monday ("this Sunday" is
> always in the future) while the bible (and perl's localtime) claims it
> as the first day ("this Sunday" is always in the past.) This gets even
> more puzzling if the phrase "See you in church this Sunday" has any
> meaning.
In English English, "this Sunday" is in the future, regardless of
when the speaker thinks the week begins. If you mean the most recent
Sunday in the past, then you say "last Sunday".
The tricky one is "next Sunday". Towards the end of the week, say on a
Friday or Saturday, "this Sunday" is in a day or two's time and "next
Sunday" is a week later, but at the beginning of the week, "next Sunday"
is the same as "this Sunday".
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David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist
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