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Originally posted by Bowmann
Look up "rhetorical question" in a dictionary.
I like to answer rhetorical questions.

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Originally posted by The Plumber
While it was nice of the ISO guys to standardize on a week with Monday as day 1 for computer standardization purposes, it is none the less true that most civilizations have for the last 5 or 6 millenia considered Sunday to be the first day of the week, and as far as I know, that hasn't changed in most places (with the notable exception of the computer folks who decided to standardize on Monday being day 1 a decade or so ago).
Well, I don't know about other countries, but in Germany and Norway, most calendars put Monday first.

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Originally posted by The Plumber
While it was nice of the ISO guys to standardize on a week with Monday as day 1 for computer standardization purposes, it is none the less true that most civilizations have for the last 5 or 6 millenia considered Sunday to be the first day of the week, and as far as I know, that hasn't changed in most places (with the notable exception of the computer folks who decided to standardize on Monday being day 1 a decade or so ago).
surely, monday is day zero... ;-)

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Looks at calander.... notes Sunday as first day.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
I like to answer rhetorical questions.
Is that so.

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Originally posted by The Plumber
Sunday is the first day of the week, not the seventh....
HAHAHAHAHAHA That's even better, The Plumber!!!!

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Originally posted by Bowmann
Is that so.
Yes.