Apology

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Tue Oct 31 12:50:27 UTC 2000


"Richard A. O'Keefe" wrote:
> 
>         Well, #toggleStartMonday or a preference retain optional ISO-8601
>         compliance.  And with many French and German calendars, BTW.
> 
> In German, Wednesday is called "Mittwoch".

In English, Saturday and Sunday are called "Weekend".

> The C standard rules that the first day of the week is Sunday and
> that it is numbered 0.  That's "official".

And Smalltalk arrays start with one since 30 years. So that's okay ;)
(as does Date>>weekdayIndex).

Anyway, having a global in Week is awkward. This really should be
handled by the current locale. Oops! Where did "Locale current" go?

-- Bert





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