> 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".
>
Does anyone know if David Morgan-Mar (<http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/>)
reads this list? A variant of this question is as this writing the
current poll question (when the results are tallied it will be poll number
333 at <http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/>).
-john (sorry for off-topicness)
