It's the dream
Who the hell starts the week with Sunday?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to memes@sopuli.xyz
https://piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone/posts/oO/5P/oO5PyPWCXL9XKhf.jpg
Comments
Lyubo@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The US people. There went “What does the whole planet start their week on? Really? Well in that case we’ll pick Sunday”.
A bit like what they did for pretty much everything else.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s what the country was built on, the right to be as stupid as you want to be.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Including fucking paper.
Standard printing and normal daily usage paper in the US isn’t A4, but 8.5x11 instead.
owsei@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Brazil!
Monday is called “Segunda” wich means “second” and every weekday follows this. So the Nth day of the week is called Nth except weekends
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah well, it’s called october but I still think of it as the tenth month 😬
callyral@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I always think of segunda-feira as the first day of the week, despite the name; though it appears that calendars here start on Sunday (something I’ve never noticed).
While it is the first day of the work week, it makes more sense to think of it as the second day in Portuguese so the naming stays consistent.
knexcar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Uh, everybody? Mae’s the calendar so much neater seeing it bookended with weekend days on both sides.
bossito@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
God did, it’s in the bible.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
heard it’s the British
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
[D] is the weekday number, from 1 through 7, beginning with Monday and ending with Sunday.
piwakawakas@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
I always knew starting the week on Sunday was messed up. Thankfully there’s an ISO to back me up
far_university1990@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
It also say YYYY-mm-dd should be date and HH:MM:SS should be time and YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS should be datetime. But it also allow extremely cursed datetime, many prefer rfc3339
Hupf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 weeks ago
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, you see your image is different from the other image.
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 weeks ago
Yes, I can see that. How does the other one work - Do you start the working week on the Sabbath?
FaeriesWearBoots@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
This could be every month if we adopted a 13 month calendar of 4, 7 day weeks. Works out very cleanly with only 1 extra day per year.
qistoph@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Combined with Holocene calendar and decimal time… hnrggh…
dan@upvote.au 2 weeks ago
While we’re changing the calendar, can we rename September through December so they’re not off by two?
Septem, Octo, Novem and Decem are the Latin words for 7, 8, 9 and 10 respectively, but they’re actually the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th months of the year. This is because the calendar was originally only 10 months, but Julius Caesar added two new months without renaming the last four.
Maybe the oldest tech debt in existence - the calendar was changed in 45 BC.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
In Japanese months are named based on the number of the month, literally “first month” to “12th month”, which is the most sensible way to do it
Why not just call February 2026 “month 2 of 2026” and call the 9th of February 2026 “the 9th of month 2 of 2026”
Gerblat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But then we’d have to deal with that lousy Smarch weather
starik@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
People are superstitious and would never allow a 13th month
Malgas@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Worse than that, in order to preserve the date/day-of-week correlation, the extra 1-2 days (you still need leap years) would not have to be part of any week.
So that’s instant opposition from all the Abrahamic religions.
portifornia@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Agreed. It’s so simple and beautiful. - The once a year extra-day is an international Eat The Rich holiday. Probably tied to the winter solstice. - And every fourth year we all get a bonus-extra Leap Purge holiday.
The Gregorian calendar has nothing on this!
hallettj@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
I like this better than the French revolutionary calendar’s ten-day weeks. Maybe if they had included more than two weekend days people wouldn’t have hated it so much
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The best part is that every date (i.e. the 1st, the 22nd, etc) would always fall on the same day of the week, every month.
Evotech@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Weeks start on Mondays!
Kage520@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I grew up with the calendar as shown here. Like bookends on a shelf. The week “ends”.
My wife’s work insists weeks start on Mondays. This allows them to schedule her differently and not get overtime according to their scheduling.
Mine does the same, but insists the week starts on Saturdays.
I don’t know why the world cannot decide a proper schema for this.
Matombo@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
this
carrylex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I live in a blue area but I never agreed that the week starts with Sunday. It’s clearly Monday and I dgaf who says otherwise.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Dispite growing up in the US, I never actually considered Sunday as the first day of the week. I just saw Saturday and Sunday as margins to the actual week days.
Sheldan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This looks so wrong.
regedit@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
My FiL gifted me an art calendar from 1998. I was confused at first, then he said the calendar days of 1998 are the same days for 2026. So now that’s a thing we all know now!
groet@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
There exist only 14 different calendars.
Jan 1= monday, Jan 1 = tuesday, …, Jan 1= sunday, and again the same 7 combinations for leap years.
There is a difference for hollidays like easter that are based on the moon cycle, but just from the days of the week its only 14.
regedit@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Neat!
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
1 in 7 chance [if you sample from infinite years]
gnarles_snarkley@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
the first day of the month moves forward one weekday each year except mar-dec on a leap year moves forward two weekdays
BillyClark@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That can’t be correct, can it?
They would have a rotating 7 year schedule, but it’s messed up by leap years. You have the seven calendars you’re thinking of and 1-2 leap year calendars mixed into those 7 years. It would have to be somewhere between 1 in 8 and 1 in 9, wouldn’t it?
CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I think it’s more like 303/2800 chance.
There are 97 leap days every 400 years, then the calendar repeats. So you have 303/400 chance of not having a leap year, and in those years, you get a 1/7 chance of having this calendar. Thus 303/2800.
QualifiedKitten@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
No, since there’s only 7 different possibilities, then over a sufficiently large sample, the probabilities would all still balance out to 1 in 7.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
No it’s not, this means there’s two Friday the thirteenths.
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I mean that happens twice in the same year sometimes anyway (2024).
But when February does it, it does mean two consecutive ones.
Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
February starting in a Sunday also means two Friday 13th in a row, except in leap years.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
We could have 12 perfect months s year if we switched to a 13 month calendar.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My father’s birthday is in February. Maybe I’ll frame him a calendar page.
putainsdetoiles@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Never been more proud of my birth month. It did it! February really pulled it off!
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Oh wow, my birthday is on a Sunday this year. I don’t have to get up early? Yaaay!
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Disordians want a word
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
My daughter ripped off part of the February sheet on the calendar. Because it lines up so perfectly, March just auto fills in the ripped bits.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
What ?
texture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
have we peaked?
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
chat is this real?
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Once all the boomers are dead, y’all wanna adopt Symmetry454 or nah?
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Weeks start on Mondays
dan@upvote.au 2 weeks ago
This. Sunday is part of the weekend, not the weekstart.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
i078@europe.pub 2 weeks 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.
luierik@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 2 weeks ago
8601 represent
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Because sabbath was the seventh day, the rest day. It predates Christianity. It’s like the very first book of the Old Testament…
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Weekend like bookend, both sides.
KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 2 weeks ago
It’s the Front end buddy
freeman@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Feb 2027 starts on a Monday, and has 28 days!
SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
You need the metric system to understand that
archemist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
According to my workplace, the week starts on Saturday.