The perpetual calendar

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:42:39 -0800, R H Draney wrote:

Bart Mathias filted:

James Hogg wrote:
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Andrew Usher

Give the sound of your name, I suppose you would also renumber the
years, with year 1 in what is now 4004 BC.

Another one goes right over my head. What in the world is special about
how "Andrew Usher" sounds?

Oh, never mind. I just googled "4004 BC."

Guess you didn't need to have a house fall on you....r

Is it fall in the house of Ussher again already?

--
Roland Hutchinson

He calls himself "the Garden State's leading violist da gamba,"
.... comparable to being ruler of an exceptionally small duchy.
--Newark (NJ) Star Ledger ( http://tinyurl.com/RolandIsNJ )

Brian M. Scott wrote:
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:49:14 -0000, Androcles
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On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:12:09 -0800 (PST), Andrew Usher
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And the first day of the week is Sunday, not Monday - that
is an incontrovertible fact.

Don't be ridiculous: it's merely a convention. For many of
us Monday is unquestionably the first day of the week.

Which day is Mittwoch

The middle of the five-day work week.

Spot on. :-)

That's why, for example, Russian names their days:
Понедельник вторник �реда четверг п�тница �уббота во�кре�енье

вторник (Tuesday) cognate of 'second'
�реда (Wednesday) - " - 'middle'
четверг (Thursday) - " - 'fourth'
п�тница (Friday) - " - 'fifth'
:-)

pjk


and which god is it holy to?

The great god Muddle, also known as Woden, Mercurius,
Buddha, Mother Sereda, and Hump.

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On Feb 19, 11:25*am, Mike Barnes wrote:
John Atkinson :

Halmyre wrote:

I just wish they'd settle on a date for Easter and be done with it.

But, the whole point of Easter is that it has a full moon!

A full-*ish* moon, actually. The definitions of the equinox and full
moon used when determining Easter are rather different from the real
definitions used by astronomers, which would actually give rise to
different (perhaps several weeks different) Easter dates depending on
one's longitude.

But I thought that for most people the whole point of Easter is that
they get time off work.


not in the US, at least not in my state.

--
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

Andrew Usher wrote:
Brian M. Scott wrote:

And trying to come up with a new calendar fixating on
Christmas is about as logical as fixating on Waitangi
Day.

This is just West-bashing.

Don't be silly: New Zealand is part of the cultural west.

But what the day commemorates is not.

Whatever gave you that idea, Andrew?

It commermorates an agreement between some M�ori
tribes and British Crown. So even then, when it was being
signed, it was just as 'west' as it was 'southpacific'.

pjk

Halmyre wrote:

I just wish they'd settle on a date for Easter and be done with it.

The present system might sound complicated, but it's a consistently
reliable method - at least in Australia - for predicting the arrival of
the first really rainy weekend in the year. This ensures that all the
people who go camping for the long weekend will be rained out, year
after year.

--
Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org
For an e-mail address, see my web page.

Andrew Usher :
Mike Barnes wrote:
Adam Funk :
From man 5 crontab:

When specifying day of week, both day 0 and day 7 will be
considered Sunday. BSD and AT&T seem to disagree about this.

But they presumably agree that day one is Monday.

But 0 is the start of computer indexing - at least in real programs. 0
= Sunday.

Your humour bypass is showing.

--
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

Andrew Usher :
Mike Barnes wrote:
Andrew Usher :
And the first day of the week is Sunday, not Monday - that is an
incontrovertible fact.

Crap.

OK, it's a crap fact (?).

It's also a fact that no fact is incontrovertible.

--
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

Peter Moylan wrote:
Halmyre wrote:

I just wish they'd settle on a date for Easter and be done with it.

The present system might sound complicated, but it's a consistently
reliable method - at least in Australia - for predicting the arrival of
the first really rainy weekend in the year. This ensures that all the
people who go camping for the long weekend will be rained out, year
after year.


The local equivalent is May 24th weekend, variously known as the Queen's
Birthday, the 24th, Victoria Day etc. I think it's the opening of the
trout season, or possibly that for some other fish, and an enormous
number of people (not including me) go camping and fishing that long
weekend, fortified by lots of beer and food. And it almost invariably
rains. When it doesn't rain, it snows.

I once moved house on the May 24th weekend with the help of some
non-fishing friends, and we had freezing rain the whole time, which made
going up and down the outside steps challenging. I should have known better.

--
Cheryl

Andrew Usher wrote:
Mike Barnes wrote:
Adam Funk :
From man 5 crontab:
When specifying day of week, both day 0 and day 7 will be
considered Sunday. BSD and AT&T seem to disagree about this.
But they presumably agree that day one is Monday.

But 0 is the start of computer indexing - at least in real programs. 0
= Sunday.

Where do you get that idea?

/BAH

On Feb 21, 12:20*am, Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
On Feb 19, 11:25*am, Mike Barnes wrote:





John Atkinson :

Halmyre wrote:

I just wish they'd settle on a date for Easter and be done with it.

But, the whole point of Easter is that it has a full moon!

A full-*ish* moon, actually. The definitions of the equinox and full
moon used when determining Easter are rather different from the real
definitions used by astronomers, which would actually give rise to
different (perhaps several weeks different) Easter dates depending on
one's longitude.

But I thought that for most people the whole point of Easter is that
they get time off work.

not in the US, at least not in my state.

? Time off? Offices aren't open on Sundays anyway, and retail stores
haven't closed on holidays in years.