[Tutor] Through a glass, darkly: the datetime module

[Roel Schroeven]

Sander Sweers schreef:
> 
> Op 7 okt. 2012 04:29 schreef <akleider at sonic.net 
> <mailto:akleider at sonic.net>> het volgende:
>  > I'm also not sure but I seem to remember that it is
>  > ("SUNDAY", "MONDAY", "TUESDAY", "WEDNESDAY", "THURSDAY", "FRIDAY",
>  > "SATURDAY", "SUNDAY")
>  > which I think is extremely clever because it gets around the problem
>  > created by the fact that some people (misguided in my view) begin the 
> week
>  > with Sunday instead of ending with it.
> 
> This has religious reasons, see 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#Systems_derived_from_the_seven-day_week. 
> Notable exception to the rule that Sunday is the first day of the week 
> in europe is Italy, they consider Monday the first day of the week.

As far as I know, monday is generally considered the first day of the 
week here in Belgium. I never knew it was different in other European 
countries; I thought it was America that starts the week on sunday. Was 
I wrong then?

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