88.112.110.144

I reverted your changes because not everyone in the world agrees with you that "a week begins on a Monday". If you want to make this change, I suggest you discuss it first at Disputatio:Hebdomas. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 16:13, 13 Octobris 2007 (UTC)

See ISO 8601. 88.112.110.144 17:02, 13 Octobris 2007 (UTC)

Since you've reverted without discussion, and made a similar alteration on a third page, I've blocked this address. You can still create a username and edit Vicipaedia: please do! But with the aim to enlarge and improve the encyclopedia. ISO is an important authority, but it isn't the last word. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 17:12, 13 Octobris 2007 (UTC)

Re: "Since you've reverted without discussion"—Andrew, perhaps 88's "See ISO 8601" counts as discussion? IacobusAmor 17:21, 13 Octobris 2007 (UTC)

Not in my dictionary. By all means cite yours! Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 17:31, 13 Octobris 2007 (UTC)

I've always regarded Monday as the first day of the week, but most Americans regard Sunday as the first day of the week, as do most Christians, taking their cue from the Bible (Matthew 28:1), which point-blank says the day on which Jesus rose from the dead was "the first day of the week," a day that from the beginning they've celebrated as Sunday. Oddly, Polynesian languages, though heavily influenced by Christian missionaries, conform to the ISO (secular) pattern: in Samoan, the word for Tuesday, Aso Lua, translates literally as 'Day Two'; and in Hawaiian, the word for Monday, Pō‘akahi, translates literally as 'Day One', leading to the absurdity that the name of the Seventh-Day Adventist religion in Hawai‘i is Ho‘omana Pō‘ōno—literally, 'Sixth-Day Religion'! IacobusAmor 17:21, 13 Octobris 2007 (UTC)

I suggest we continue this at Disputatio:Hebdomas. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 17:31, 13 Octobris 2007 (UTC)