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.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Weeks start on Mondays
i078@europe.pub 3 months ago
luierik@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
[deleted]yakko@feddit.uk 3 months ago
We do
dan@upvote.au 3 months 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 3 months ago
You replied to wrong person I think 😉
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
American self-reporting
luierik@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I’d thought I’d see less people of the USA on Lemmy but it seems I cannot escape them
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
We have our ISO and Americans have their ANSI, everyone has something
KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 months ago
8601 represent
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 months 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 3 months ago
What day was the Christian day of rest & worship day again?
PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Was my understanding as well. Last day of the week is for rest, which Christians do on a Sunday. Funny that a lot of Christian countries still use Sabbath as last day of the week.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
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?
doctordevice@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Weekend like bookend, both sides.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 months 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 3 months ago
It’s the Front end buddy
freeman@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 3 months 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.
CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Feb 2027 starts on a Monday, and has 28 days!
SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
You need the metric system to understand that
archemist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
According to my workplace, the week starts on Saturday.
dan@upvote.au 3 months ago
This. Sunday is part of the weekend, not the weekstart.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
nuko147@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You gotta choose, either weekend = Saturday or weekend = Saturday + Sunday.
If your case is the 1st just say have a nice Saturday and Sunday. If you say have a nice weekEND for both days, Sunday is the last day of the week.
stupe@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Sunday is on one end and Saturday is at the other.
hallettj@leminal.space 3 months ago
Like bookends!
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes, we had the “bookends” discussion down here.