DAYOFWEEK command

[Gerald H]

Fear not, Giancarlo, Sunday retains its primacy in the seven day week.

The calendar was instituted by primitives who had a

https://soundcloud.com/fearofzero

or possibly just ignored its existence as best they could.

In the modern world, as personified by our best representatives in the UN, no such fear or ignorance prevails - so in their wisdom, knowing weekdays are counted modulo 7, they chose Sunday as day zero.

Sadly language takes some centuries to catch up with maths, so we won't be placing the winners at the next Olympics in zeroth position, but just hang around long enough...