[USMA:23264] Re: Question about date format

[Brij Bhushan Vij]

I had the feeling that NO ONE wished to discuss the calendars on USMA list! Does the topic continue....or considered CLOSED!
Brij

From: Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [USMA:23262] Re: Question about date format
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 07:06:15 +1100

Dear Bill and All,

on 2002-11-01 06.56, Bill Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

<snip>

> That a calendar should show the calendar week
> seems quite reasonable. <g>

As I understand it, the calendar was originally intended to show the
'calends'.

In the Roman calendar the word 'calends' refers to the first day of each
month. The other main Roman day each month was the 'ides' � the fifteenth
day of each month. Remember the quote from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar,
'Beware the ides of March.'

By identifying two days each month it gave the Romans a simple way of
spacing things like market days at approximately half-month intervals
without the complications of those end of month calculations that are
necessary because of variable length months.

Cheers,

Pat Naughtin CAMS
Geelong, Australia

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