It seems ISO made a grave mistake.
In Hebrew, "Sunday" is "the first day" etc., there are no special names for
the days of the week except Saturday (Shabat).
Jony
At 00:32 27/06/99 -0700, Arno Schmitt wrote:
>Markus Kuhn wrote:
>> US calendars seem to start the week predominantly at Sunday, only some
>> business organizers and calendars use the ISO week scheme as well. I
>> have not yet found any more formal reference for why they start weeks at
>> Sunday.
>
>Try this out, esp. verses 5,8,13,19,23,31
>
>http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new?id=KjvGeneimages=&data=/lv2
/english/relig/kjvtag=public&part=1&division=div
>
>Just in cases you are not familiar with the Hebrew original: what
>is here translated as "first day" really is "Sunday", "second day"
>is "Monday" and so forth.
>
>Further reason:
>
>http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/kjv2www?specfile=/lv6/workspace/kjv/kjv-pu
b.o2wact=surround&offset=4715713&tag=Matthew,+ch.+28query=first+day
>
>http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/kjv2www?specfile=/lv6/workspace/kjv/kjv-pu
b.o2wact=surround&offset=4562885&tag=Mark,+ch.+16query=first+day
>
>http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/kjv2www?specfile=/lv6/workspace/kjv/kjv-pu
b.o2wact=surround&offset=4443239&tag=Luke,+ch.+24query=first+day
>
>http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/kjv2www?specfile=/lv6/workspace/kjv/kjv-pu
b.o2wact=surround&offset=3788237&tag=John,+ch.+20query=first+day
>
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