On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Joe Geiser wrote:

> ... and to not forget our Arab friends ... which really screwed me up
> in 1984 when I spent a considerable amount of time in Saudi Arabia...
>  The weekend corresponds to the Muslim Sabbath --- your weekend is
> Thursday/Friday.  Guess this makes "humpday" on Monday, eh?  hehehe

The Easter and other moving Holidays are terrible.

Some aborted trial recourse to enforce a decimal calenday where January 1
is always Monday, and there are uniform 30 day long monthes consisting
of 3 decades and leap days after each quarter and at the end of the year.

                                             Frank

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