Op 7 okt. 2012 04:29 schreef <aklei...@sonic.net> het volgende:
> I'm also not sure but I seem to remember that it is
> ("SUNDAY", "MONDAY", "TUESDAY", "WEDNESDAY", "THURSDAY", "FRIDAY",
> "SATURDAY", "SUNDAY")
> which I think is extremely clever because it gets around the problem
> created by the fact that some people (misguided in my view) begin the week
> with Sunday instead of ending with it.

This has religious reasons, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#Systems_derived_from_the_seven-day_week.
Notable exception to the rule that Sunday is the first day of the week in
europe is Italy, they consider Monday the first day of the week.

Greets
Sander
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