On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 03:18:32 Bill Potts wrote: >... >Well, I'm not religious. The starting day of the week is arbitrary... > ? I'm not sure it can be, Bill. Either Sunday was indeed the first day of the week or it wasn't! True, you may want to arbitrarily order these since we're dealing with a "cycle" here. However, *technically* it wouldn't be entirely "correct" to use any other day as first of the week if historically it wasn't so. >... However, I have difficulty believing you don't know what noon is. > Bill, I guess what Predrag means is that he, like many I know (so, it should actually be no surprise...), has difficulty knowing whether 12:00 am refers to midnight or noon (the same goes with 12:00 pm).
I must share my experience here that no matter how long you live under this framework for some reason it always seems difficult to *many* (and I must concede that at times I, personally, have to stop for a moment to think...) to know which one is which... Please, don't ask me why, it just is... Marcus ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
