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!
Easy, the Jewish Calendar starts with the sunday, this is common pratice in Israel because the weeks end with the Shabbat. thereof this applies to Jews only. As the Christians have stolen (derived) the religion form the Jews thier calendar was the same, during centuries somewhere in the 1500 century the church changed the last day to sunday to be different from the Jews (a former teacher fo mine told me). But why the US week start with a sunday I do not really understand. How is it in other english-speaking countries? > > 2. AM/PM To this day I have no clue what noon is. I cringe when > someone calls 13:00, military time. > what's the problem with, as you, I am from Europe too, I asways used and will always use in speech and text with *everyone* 24 h hour clock, so you should the same. just say if it is a full hour like 13 or 14: 13 hours oder 13 hundred hours if other time like 13:35 or 15:12 say thirteen twelve or thirteen hours twelve and so forth. don't let you dumb down. > 3. January 1, 2004. In Europe, it would be written 1 January, 2004. > stupid manner, makes no sense. Internatonal english uses always 1 January 2004. No commas or whatsoever, so do I and you should too. In numeric-only dates I user ISO8601 exclusively > 4. Letter sized paper vs. A4. > ignorance and unknowledge, sooner or later they will and Canada too. > Any comments please? > read above! > Thanks, > Predrag nevermind PS: are you from southease Europe?
