Dave Rolsky schreef:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Ben Bennett wrote:
> 
> > I used to live in Saudi Arabia and the weekend was on Thursday and
> > Friday (I don't know what calendar businesses used but I will ask my
> > father).
> 
> If it was on Thursday and Friday it was still following the Gregorian
> calendar though.

Not necessarily. It only means that there is a cycle with a period of 7
days in the calendar.

The Hijira (Islamic) calendar uses a 7-day week just like the Gregorian
calendar (and like the Hebrew calendar), so you can't conclude anything
from this fact.

Eugene

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