On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 at 18:55:55, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>> 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)
>
>but not for the US (which seem to see thereselves as a separete part of the
>world). All their calenders start a week earlier with the week numbers as
>eueropean ones.
.. and the USA date format is totally confusing.
01/02/2006 is January 2nd whereas most of the world treat it as February
1st.
The Japanese though being supremely logical, use 2006/02/01 for Feb
first, I believe. Great for programmers!
Tony
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