What do people that start the week on sunday call the “weekend”? For them only Saturday is the weekend and Sunday is the weekstart or what?
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Weeks start on Mondays
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
doctordevice@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Weekend like bookend, both sides.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 18 minutes ago
Ah yes, Weekends are like bookends. I like your analogy.
If these nonces up there can understand that there’s no such thing as a “bookstart,” they can begin to understand the concept of weekends holding the week together from opposite ends.
KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 6 hours ago
It’s the Front end buddy
freeman@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Σαββατοκύριακο. Saturday and Sunday. It would be far weirder to start the week on Δευτέρα which literally meaning “second”.
Of course in English and other languages Monday does not mean second. Still for Mose western (plus Arabs) Monday has been second after Sunday. Long before Saturday was a day off.
ISO defining the start of the week as Monday due to it being the first business day (lol) has comparatively little impact.
i078@europe.pub 8 hours ago
Depends, mine starts on Monday. I also live in SI and ISO. My wife’s starts on Sunday, she goes to church. Although I still don’t get that as the seventh day was a rest day.
It does sometimes make talking about Sunday next week confusing.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Because sabbath was the seventh day, the rest day. It predates Christianity. It’s like the very first book of the Old Testament…
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 56 minutes ago
What day was the Christian day of rest & worship day again?
luierik@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
You are using ‘SI and ISO’ mike everybody knows what the fuck that means
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 minutes ago
Oh lol way to embarrass yourself
luierik@lemmy.zip 27 minutes ago
What in the fuck are you talking about?
One does not live in SI if one means standard units (like ISO) so people can safely assume it is meant as an abbreviation of a US state or some shit, like Americans always use, thinking everybody knows the abbreviation of every place in USA.
yakko@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
We do
dan@upvote.au 6 hours ago
Practically everyone should know SI. It’s the international system of units - the standard system of measurement used in most of the world. It includes base units for time (seconds), distance (meters), mass (kilograms), electric current (amps), temperature (Kelvin), amount of a substance (mole) and intensity of light (candela), plus a bunch of units derived from these.
luierik@lemmy.zip 14 minutes ago
You replied to wrong person I think 😉
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
American self-reporting
luierik@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
I’d thought I’d see less people of the USA on Lemmy but it seems I cannot escape them
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
We have our ISO and Americans have their ANSI, everyone has something
KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 6 hours ago
8601 represent
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 8 hours ago
It depends on the country. While most countries start it in Monday, Sunday is also common, some muslim countries start it on Saturday, and Maldives start the week on Fridays.
dan@upvote.au 6 hours ago
This. Sunday is part of the weekend, not the weekstart.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 20 minutes ago
But there’s no such thing as the word “weekstart.” Weekends are split in half. Saturday is the end of the week and Sunday is the beginning of the week. I am from USA and this has always been my understanding.