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In passing :

In article <947@rlvd.UUCP> mike@rlvd.UUCP (Mike Woods) writes:
>For at least the last two and a half thousand years Sunday has been
>the first day of the week. How on Earth can ISO decide to run
>counter to the whole (well almost) of humanity and announce that
>Monday is the "standard" first day of the week. I find this somewhat
>pathetic.

I'm sorry Mike, but I was always taught that Monday was the first day of
the week and, if I was, so must a lot of other people. I cant see that
it matters one iota which day is the first considering that there are
probably cultures that dont even have 7 day weeks at all (are there??
Where and how do they cope?). From a European/NA point of view the
biblical argument seems to be quite reasonable however.



Anyway, what I really wanted to say was - How about some people posting
(to mod.sources for example) translations of the UN*X error messages
into a variety of languages. I am sure that this would be USEFUL (gasps
and cries from all around) and its about time we had something like that
out of this group given all the noise we made about it. If people dont
want to post them to the net, send them to me and I'll accumulate them
and I'll package them up and psot them.

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