From cowan@ccil.org Sun Oct 29 06:26:49 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@locke.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 29 Oct 2000 14:26:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 60883 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2000 14:26:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 29 Oct 2000 14:26:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta3 with SMTP; 29 Oct 2000 14:26:49 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA22294; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:38:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:38:04 -0500 (EST) To: Ivan A Derzhanski Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: month names In-Reply-To: <39FB1762.43D1D0BB@math.bas.bg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote: > Unfortunately, that's not quite the case. Languages disagree on > the day on which the numbering should start; Tuesday is Day 2 in > the Slavic reckoning, but Day 3 in Greek and Day 4 in Swahili. ISO (the International Organization for Standards) has declared that the Slavic reckoning is the international one. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter