> Markus Kuhn wrote:
> > US calendars seem to start the week predominantly at Sunday, only some
> > business organizers and calendars use the ISO week scheme as well. I
> > have not yet found any more formal reference for why they start weeks at
> > Sunday.
>
> Try this out, esp. verses 5,8,13,19,23,31
>
> http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new?id=KjvGene&images=&data=/lv2/english/relig/kjv&tag=public&part=1&division=div
>
> Just in cases you are not familiar with the Hebrew original: what
> is here translated as "first day" really is "Sunday", "second day"
> is "Monday" and so forth.
( not only that; it's encoded into Unix ;-)
see 'localtime()'
I regard the monday=1st as a variant rather than the standard also.
It would be interesting to know how that numbering came about.
-- Thomas E. Dickey dickey@clark.net http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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