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
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.
Over the past couple of years I have sent three or four postings to the timezone list (tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov), yet my messages just seem to vanish into thin air. Can somebody explain why this might be? Copy of my posting earlier today in response to the "week starts at Sunday or Monday?" question ... ============= For what it's worth, my vote for the best day numbering scheme is... Sun = 0 (& 7) Mon = 1 Tue = 2 Wed = 3 Thu = 4 Fri = 5 Sat = 6 This scheme ties in with Judaeo-Christian tradition without placing too much emphasis on Sunday being day 1. * Whilst this scheme does go against the grain of the Gregorian calendarial system which has month and year counts beginning with 1, not zero. This can be overcome by permitting Sunday to be day number 7 instead of day 0. This is easily dealt with by software. (e.g. with "If WeekDay == 7 then WeekDay = 0") ============= If this posting and the highly pertinent timezone corrections I have supplied in the past is not welcome, then why haven't I received an explanatory response to that effect? Am I perhaps missing some subtle aspect of the list etiquette? Ian Tragen ian@page-1.com http://www.page-1.com
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