Leaving religious sentiments, I have always felt and taked of the firstday as Monday (01) thro Sunday (00/07) with 52-week for normal year and Years divisible by six (6) to have added *Leap Week of the Year* as 53rd week, in an 834-year cycle.1. Why the heck every calendar has Sunday as first day of the week? For the religious in this group, even god rested on the seventh day, not the first!
This is the division of earth in TWO halves from date line, at Greenwich. It is NOON at Greenwich, when date change occur at dateline. There are some clocks that show 24-hours directly on the dail face; BUT none that show DECIMALISATION of the HOUR that link with *decimalisation of DEGREE* for arc-angle. It is time to review IDEAS that connect time, arc-angle, and define the TWO to the advantage of Nautical astronomy.2. AM/PM To this day I have no clue what noon is. I cringe when someone >calls 13:00, military time.
3. January 1, 2004. In Europe, it would be written 1 January, 2004.YES, considerable confusion exists on ISO 8601:2000 and the manner in which dates are written. My contribution: Metric, Sidereal or Decimal Calendar; The Standards Engineer; Vol 26 No.2 & 5; April 1992 - March 1993; pp 44 -47 list several ways that cause confusion. There must be ONE standard fr date writing all over the globe.
4. Letter sized paper vs. A4.This is a respectable size for writing of a document on paper. The choice A4 is chosen to cause minimal waste of paper during trimming. There is a need for RATIONALISATION of paper sizes to 'centimetric sized dimensions' rather than hard metric conversion & adhering to the A$ paper.
Regards,
Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20040101/20:38 PM(IST)
Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda.
*****The New Calendar Rhyme*****
Thirty days in July, September:
April, June, November, December;
All the rest have thirty-one; accepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-nine, to be (in) fine;
Till leap year gives the whole week READY:
Is it not time to MODIFY or change to make it perennial, Oh Daddy!
And make the calendar work with Leap Week Rule! ***** ***** ***** *****
From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:28053] RE: Calendar, date and time Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 03:18:32 -0800
Comments interspersed.
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>Behalf Of Predrag Lezaic
>Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 00:48
>To: U.S. Metric Association
>Subject: [USMA:28052] Calendar, date and time
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>Hi,
>
>Since I came to US 10 years ago there have been 4 things that
>bothered me. I
>wonder if any of these almost exclusively (as far as I know) items have
>anything to do with Metric vs. Imperial.
>
>1. Why the heck every calendar has Sunday as first day of the week? For the
>religious in this group, even god rested on the seventh day, not the first!
Well, I'm not religious. The starting day of the week is arbitrary. I've always been happy with Sunday as the first day. That's also the way it was where I grew up (England).
>2. AM/PM To this day I have no clue what noon is. I cringe when someone >calls 13:00, military time.
I have the same problem as you with people who refer to 24-hour time as military time. However, I have difficulty believing you don't know what noon is.
> >3. January 1, 2004. In Europe, it would be written 1 January, 2004.
If the month is expressed as a name (or an abbreviation of a name), the date is unambiguous, so I don't care either way. I don't see much point in having rigid standards for narrative or informal expressions.
However, if the month is expressed numerically, my strong preference (and my only choice) is for the ISO 8601 standard (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss). I use it all the time -- on application forms, checks, etc. That's the way I choose to display it on my computer.
>4. Letter sized paper vs. A4.
Almost everyone (possibly everyone) who posts to this list prefers the ISO A Series for paper sizes. The U.S. Government was supposed to use A4 for correspondence, but nobody ever enforced it. If they did use it, paper manufacturers would have to include A Series sizes in their product lines. Thus, A4 would be widely available and others might be persuaded to switch. I have my own stock of about 6000 sheets of A4.
Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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