On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 09:15:35 Chimpsarecute wrote: >... >First of all, Sunday is the first day of the week. The Sabbath rest day is >and always has been Saturday. In Spanish and some other languages, the word >for Saturday is "Sabbath" (Sabado). So if he rested on the 7-th day, then >he rested on a Saturday, not a Sunday. > Agreed!!! Regardless of religious preference of what day one chooses to rest on one cannot dispute this fact (that God rested on the Sabbath day). Well said, Euric. >... >We try to promote ISO8601 which would write the date as 2004-01-01. I never >understood why a comma is written after the month and before the year. Why >not just 1 January 2004?
Indeed! Unfortunately it seems that this is how dates are taught in school unto this day. I remember quite distinctly from my primary years. The teachers would always emphasize writing it as '1 de janeiro de 2004', or: '1o. de janeiro de 2004'. Unlike with other languages we don't need the use of the comma for this! It's only due to the information age that we started putting dashes, slashes and stuff, but rarely, or practically never, commas (I'm speaking from the perspective of Portuguese speaking peoples). >... I tend to despise excessive use of commas and peroids and avoid >them as much as possible. It looks like sloppy notation. >... And I must concur. Well said. Marcus ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
