Entertainment may add FUEL and burn the discussion - the wrong way. Should we think *if or not we agree to REFORM the metre in larger interest!
Brij
From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [USMA:23265] Re: Question about date format
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:19:47 -0800
I have no objection to the kind of little vignette Pat just provided. I knew
about ides, but not about calends, so my knowledge of that small part just
doubled.
As I see it, Don Hillger's objection was to the long, apparently endless,
repetitive, and definitely turgid discussions of the subject. Given that
those discussions had nothing to do with SI (Don's primary stated objection)
and were, moreover, not very entertaining, I'd say that I agree with Don.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma@;colostate.edu]On
>Behalf Of Brij Bhushan Vij
>Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 12:36
>To: U.S. Metric Association
>Subject: [USMA:23264] Re: Question about date format
>
>
>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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