LL-L "Tradition" 2010.09.05 (01) [EN]

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at fleimin.demon.co.uk>

Subject: LL-L "Tradition" 2010.09.04 (01) [DE-EN-NDS]



> From: Hellinckx Luc <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
>

> I think they did divide a month somewhat. A lunar cycle lasts roughly
> 28 days (moon > month), half that is a fortnight (= fourteen nights),
> and half that again (7 nights) would be a week, corresponding with the
> 4 phases of the moon. Whether they attached a special significance to
> the changing of weeks, I highly doubt. Then when religion came about
> and Jews were gathering on a Saturday, I guess it's convenient for
> Muslims and Christians to choose either one day before or one day
> after Saturday for a religious celebration. Maybe because in the early
> days, some liked to worship more than one god, and therefore
> celebrations should not coincide?



I read somewhere, once, ages ago, that the earliest Christians were in
the habit of meeting secretly once the Jewish celebrations had finished
(presumably they either still saw themselves as Jews or had to pretend
to do the Sabbath). These meetings could extend well into the night and
eventually became part of Sunday. Presumably this is all just guessing.

> From: jmtait <jmtait at wirhoose.co.uk>
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> Subject: LL-L "Tradition" 2010.09.03 (03) [EN]
>
> Sandy wrote:
>
> From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at fleimin.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: LL-L "Tradition" 2010.09.03 (02) [EN]

> Hmm. So why are all the days called after Roman and Germanic deities,
> then?


Oh yeah. I dunno :\

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/



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From: Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc. <roger.thijs at euro-support.be>

Subject: LL-L "Tradition" 2010.09.04 (02) [EN]



There has been international standardization as to the order of days and
weeks:



ISO 8601 gives (translating from a standardization magazine from 1989):



- The first day of the week is Monday

- The week of the year with number 1 is the week that includes the first
Thursday of the week.



I see that in Belgian diaries the week starts with Monday.

I have a little COOP 2010-2011 diary of Harvard/MIT: it starts the week with
Sunday.



Anyhow International Standardization often applies to all countries except
to the US.



However the US is not alone, I remember I bought a diary several years ago
in Bejing, and its week numbering (for that year) was one unit offset with
the ISO system. I don't remember whether the weeks started on Sunday or
Monday in that one.



The (occupied) Southern Netherlands have had weeks of 10 days (decades) from
1895 till 1802.

cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar



See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week_number#Week_numbering



Emotionally Sunday has always been the last day of the week for me, a day of
rest after a week of hard work. We were also used to wear "Sunday clothes"
on Sunday. In our Roman Catholic tradition one was used to go to one of the
Sunday Masses. One was "read" at 7 am, a second "sung" at 10 am. In my youth
the service was still in Latin, pronounced in the S-way: Sézar for Caesar,
not Kaizar as modern scholars often do. The tradition of going to Sunday
Roman Catholic services is fading out in Belgium.



Regards,

Roger



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