Re: Postscript Calendar Program (Week Number needed)

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From: Robert Claeson
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 1990 15:11

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In a recent article freak@cbnewsc.att.com (c.e.malloy..iii) writes:

>I always thought the Saturday and Sunday were called the "weekend"
>because the were the first and last days of the week. You know the
>two ENDS? If your first day of the week is Monday, the Sunday and
>Monday would be the ends, Saturday is somewhere between the ends.

And I always thought that Saturday and Sunday were called the "weekend"
because they were and the end of the week, hence the "weekend". Silly
me. Silly ISO. Now I and the ISO knows better.

Flames to /dev/null please.

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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
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Subject: Re: Postscript Calendar Program (Week Number needed)
Summary: Non-standard weekends. Enough said.
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Date: 11 Nov 90 15:11:27 GMT
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