Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: A suggestion for the Lojban names of weekdays and months.

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Thursday 07 October 2010 14:31:37 Oleksii Melnyk wrote:
> 2010/10/7 Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>
>
> > the calendar I'm used to, probably should be either (day of week | day
> > of month | month of year | year) or (day of month | month | year)
>
> I think, here we have 2 separate calendars: (day of month | month | year)
> and (day of week)(week, mostly used in offset format(next|last)). Year of
> week is rare (however I've seen it used once). And we are mixing them
> sometimes (last Xday of the Month,day of week | day
> of month | month of year | year).

If the date is expressed as day, month, and year, the order should be year, 
month, day. If, however, it's (day of 13-day period | day of 20-day period), 
I think the order is arbitrary; neither is more significant than the other.

Pierre
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