Well, there's the front end of the week, and the back end of the week, and
together they make the weekend ...

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Predrag Lezaic
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 14:29
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:28067] RE: Calendar, date and time

Let me throw another twist on the Sunday issue chat :) If Sunday is first
day of the week why is "Week-END" called weekend instead of the
week-beginning? :) In other words, if it is weekend why doesn't it end with
the end of the week which is according to US calendars Saturday?

I am originally from Croatia. We use metric, Day Month Year for dates, A4
paper and 24 hour clock. I only heard few plumbers use inches for pipes in
my life.

Does anyone knows of a list that shows which country uses which standard for
the issues we are talking about here? I would be very interested to know,
but my guess is that USA is again in minority with it's style just as it is
with the metric system use.

Predrag


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