Την Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:21:23 -0500,ο(η) Joachim Van der Auwera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε:
> Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: >> Την Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:40:20 -0500,ο(η) Ralf Reköndt >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε: >> >> >>> Hi Phoebus, >>> >>> in Germany, the week starts at Monday, and I believe, we are not the >>> only >>> one. There is no difference between work and calendar week. > > I have always been surprised about this. We are christian countries, and > the bible says (genesis) "on the first days....., the seventh day was a > day of rest". > So this would mean (as sunday is the rest day) that monday is the first > day of the week. Now I would expect jews to start the week on sunday as > sabbath (their rest day) is on saturday... > > Joachim > Actually the Sabbath is the rest day (which corresponds with Saturday). So it follows that Sunday is the first day of the week. I did some research and found (thanks for free GPRS access on the weekends ;-) this page: <url: http://webexhibits.org/calendars/week.html>. There I found that per international standard Monday is the first day of the week, however NOT for religious purposes. If you are a practicing Christian or Jew theoretically at least your first day is Sunday. (Hence why the name of Monday in Greek means Second) Cheers, Phoebus _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
