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I'm so relieved.

I have a contract with a national speaker to come to our guild next month. Our meeting is on a Monday night and our workshops are the day after. Someone contacted me about which day the workshop is because she had saved both days on her calendar. I checked my calendar that hangs on the wall by my computer and wrote back to her that it was to be on Tuesday the 14th. That was yesterday. I woke up this morning in a bit of a panic. It seemed to me that my contract reads the 12th and 13th. OH NO! So I run upstairs to get the contract, yes, the 12th and 13th. Check the calendar...the 12th is Monday and the 13th is Tuesday. Sigh of relief. So why did I write back to the other woman about Tuesday the 14th???? Discovered the calendar next to my computer is a gift DH brought back from his last trip to Russia.....the first day of the week is Monday, not Sunday as we are accustomed to! Mystery solved. But now I've been up since 5:45 am!!! Maybe I'll try to go back to bed........

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KJ
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You can't win that one Kathyl. You can only try. I remember scheduling things and very clearly saying Tuesday the 13th when it may have been the

14th and creating a major mess. After that disaster, I was very careful to check my dates 3 times and then get someone (or two) to recheck for me. Didn't work. The announcement also said the meeting would be at noon. Naturally, some of the group showed up at one o'clock p.m. A polite debate ensued as to whether noon was at 12 or one. I considered putting on the next schedule 'when the little hand is on 12 and the big hand is on 12' but decided that would be insulting. If there is a way to get a large group of people together at the very same time, I never found it. Polly

"KJ" I have a contract with a national speaker to come to our guild next month.

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Polly Esther

This would have been a big mess if it really had been wrong! I have a hotel room reserved for the speaker, a room reserved for the workshop and some people take off work to come to the workshop. I am planning to retire from the program committee but I really didn't want to be kicked off in disgrace. Just out of curiosity.....do other international calendars start with Monday, not Sunday? I didn't realize I usually just look at the position of the number on the calendar for the date instead of looking at the day of the week AND the date. I'm still feeling like I dodged a bullet. Sheesh.

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KJ

Yes, Kathyl, many calendars begin on Monday instead of Sunday. I think it makes much more sense than the way we do it here, beginning with Sunday. In fact, I prefer it to the point where I have told my computer calendar and my Palm calendar to do just that: begin on Monday. After all, why do we have a week*end*, if part of that is the beginning of the week? JMHO.

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Sandy

Makes perfect sense! Just not what I've been trained to see..... You can bet I'll double check every time I need to state a date from now on.

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KJ

Our weekly planner -- the one that tells us where we have to be and when

-- starts with Monday. It's not bad when you have two pages for just one week, but the little monthly calendars at the bottom of the page sometimes confuse me a bit. This isn't a foreign calendar; it's a pretty generic one I bought at Barnes and Noble.

Julia > This would have been a big mess if it really had been wrong! I have a hotel

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Julia in MN

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