Re: Why is it
Re: Why is it
- Subject: Re: Why is it
- From: Emile Schwarz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 11:08:53 +0100
Hi all,
In The Book*, in the very first pages of the genesis (second chapter), there is
some sentence who said that God stopped to work on the seventh day.
French language followed the Italian language for the name of the seventh day:
Dimanche (for Lord’s day) in French and Domenico (not sure for the name, but
this is also Lord’s day) in Italian. **
English (Sunday) and German (Sontag) still use the barbarian name for the
seventh day (day of the sun / tag __ __ son).
So, for some part of the planet, the seventh day is what some calls Sunday /
Sontag / Dimanche and so on.
But this is the start point of the answer. Some people gave other part of the
answer: we need a way to set the start day of the week (Day #1), then things
will be easier.
There is also another trouble: week number. Not every countries start the Week
#1 at the same 'date'.
Cheers,
Emile
* How this falls into Friday for Muslim, Saturday for Jewish and Sunday for all
flavours of Christians, I do not know.
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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:15:27 -0600
From: David Durkee <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Why is it
To: Applescript Users <email@hidden>
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Maybe its because not all countries agree on what day is day 1. I seem
to recall from French class that the French begin enumerating their
days from Monday while Americans start from Sunday.
David
On Dec 31, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On Dec 31, 2004, at 11:37 AM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
Month as integer is new in Panther (AppleScript 1.9.2). Weekday as
integer has not been implemented (yet).
I was subtly trying to ask why it has not been implemented yet. I
guess that I was being too subtle.
In English, every day name ends by 'day'.
In German, every day name ends by 'tag' excepted Wednesday (Mittwoch [mid-week
day ?])
In French, every day name ends by 'di' excepted Sunday: Dimanche
The other day name part stands for some of the Solar system planet names (except
for Moon which is not a planet per se) and date from the barbarian era (I think
long before the Roman Empire, but I do not really recall).
Same kind of rule applies for Italian.
So, Day #1 is for Moon, day #2 is for Mars, day #3 is for Mercure (english name
?), day #4 is for Jupiter (Jove ?), day #5 is for Venus, day #6 is for Saturn
and day #7 was for the Sun (old god), and for the Lord (recent centuries).
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