Janis.Papanagnou@varetis.de wrote:
On the other hand, in some languages (e.g., German: "Mittwoch"), the word for Wednesday means literally "middle of the week", which would imply a week-start of Sunday.
The Greek week names Monday through Thursday (Deftera, Triti, Tetarti, Pempti - with apologies for maybe non-standard transliteration) contain the plain words 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, respectively.
(Just for the record, and without saying this is in any context more or less correct than something else.)
Janis
Just to add another piece of information without having to go to foreign languages (although English is also foreign to me ;-) ). Just have a look at the word "week-end": Saturday and Sunday is there implied to be the "end of the week". But also, this is in a lot of West European languages the same: - "weekeinde" in Dutch, - "Wochenende" in German, - "fin de la semaine" in French (also "week-end" BTW), - "fine settimana" in Italian, - "fin de semana" in Spanish. Also, in Belgium, the week starts conventionally on a Monday. But again, the initial remark about cultural differences is very true... Peter. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Peter Verthez mailto:Peter.Verthez@alcatel.be Systems Engineer Network Mgt. Tel: (+32 3) 451 28 14 | Alcanet: Alcatel Telecom, dept. WD28 Fax: (+32 3) 451 28 03 | (6)2681 ____________________________________________________________________ If you don't backup your data, you *will* need the backup.