[ILUG] the first day of the week?

[Robert Fitzsimons]

I did a bit of research on the topic and the earliest legal definition
of the week in Ireland I could find, is in the Interpretation Act 1937
[1], with a more recent update in the Interpretation Act 2005 [2].

Prior to these acts, many pieces of UK legislation still applied to
Ireland, in this case the Interpretation Act 1889 (though I can find no
online version), this is likely the source of the difference between
Ireland and the UK.

Robert

1.  http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1937/en/act/pub/0038/gen_6.html#sch1_p67
'
Week.
34.—The word "week", when used without qualification, means the period
between midnight on any Saturday and midnight on the next following
Saturday.
'

2.  http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2005/en/act/pub/0023/sched.html
'
“week” means the period between midnight on any Saturday and midnight on
the following Saturday;
'




On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:53:58AM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> As the following script shows, the locale for IE on linux
> has Sunday as the first day of the week. I always think
> of Sunday as the last day and the UK locale concurs.
> Where could I lookup the "right" answer?
> 
> for LANG in en_IE en_GB; do
>   date -d"$(locale week-1stday) +$(($(locale first_weekday)-1))day" +%a
> done
> 
> Sun
> Mon