Welcome to this group, Predrag. Please allow me to share some insight with you below.
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 02:47:53 Predrag Lezaic wrote: >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! > Predrag, the positioning of Sunday as the *first* day of the week is historically accurate and appropriate. Unfortunately most of the Christendom abandoned the Sabbath as the true day of rest in favor of Sunday. However, this took place quite slowly throughout the first 4-5 centuries AC. So, evidently, if this fact is recognized, that Sunday is indeed the *first* day of the week, then it MUST be placed in that position, regardless of what people do in relation to keeping a day "holy", so to speak! >2. AM/PM To this day I have no clue what noon is. I cringe when someone >calls 13:00, military time. > ? I'm not sure I understood you here. You seemed to have said that you have a displeasure with the AM/PM thing, only to say that you'd *also* 'cringe' with what you called the 'military time'. Well... I'm afraid you'd *have* to choose between one of these two, my friend. To my knowledge these are the only ways people keep track of time that I'm aware of, unless you advocate a change in time framework to something else (like I do)... >3. January 1, 2004. In Europe, it would be written 1 January, 2004. > Correct. While I'd say that it would indeed make more sense to show calendar dates the ISO way (YYYY-MM-DD), the European alternative is far more logical than MM-DD-YYYY. At least the order of ALL the elements is consistent, from the "most important" to the least (important in the sense of more immediate need), or shortest "size" to the biggest. >4. Letter sized paper vs. A4. > Agreed. I am no longer buying letter-sized paper. However, because I use scrap paper a lot I'd have to put up with the nuisance of setting up my printer everytime I print something... Oh, well... A price I'm willing to pay! Welcome aboard, Predrag. Marcus Alberta, Canada ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
