On Mar 2, 9:56 am, Evan Kirshenbaum <kirshenb...@hpl.hp.com> wrote: > "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> writes: > > On Mar 1, 11:28 pm, Evan Kirshenbaum <kirshenb...@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
> >> California punts on the question, just giving the date (except, > >> interestingly, for Thanksgiving): > > >> Cal. Gov. Code 19853. (a) All state employees shall be > >> entitled to the following holidays: January 1, the third Monday > >> in January, the third Monday in February, March 31, the last > >> Monday in May, July 4, the first Monday in September, November > >> 11, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving, December 25, > >> the day chosen by an employee pursuant to Section 19854, and > >> every day appointed by the Governor of this state for a public > >> fast, thanksgiving, or holiday. > > >> but the Department of Personnel Administration apparently calls it > >> "Presidents Birthday". > > >>http://www.dpa.ca.gov/personnel-policies/holidays.htm > > > So only people born on the third Monday in February can be President > > of California? > > > What happened on March 31? > > C sar Ch vez was born. > > > Why couldn't they say "the fourth Thursday and Friday of November"? > > What makes you think they couldn't? A better question would be "Why > didn't they?"
What makes you think that "Why couldn't they?" isn't a perfectly normal way to ask that question?
