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Who the hell starts the week with Sunday?
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.
Weeks start on Mondays
This. Sunday is part of the weekend, not the weekstart.
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?
Weekend like bookend, both sides.
It’s the Front end buddy
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.
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.
Because sabbath was the seventh day, the rest day. It predates Christianity. It’s like the very first book of the Old Testament…
8601 represent
You are using ‘SI and ISO’ like everybody knows what the fuck that means
We do
American self-reporting
I’d thought I’d see less people of the USA on Lemmy but it seems I cannot escape them
Says the person posting from a US instance…
Practically everyone should know SI, or have at least heard of it before. It’s 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.
It’s practically only the USA that doesn’t use some of three units (for example, preferring feet over meters)
ISO is a standards body. They define a bunch of standards. One of the more well-known ones is ISO 8601, which defines standards for dates and times. It specifies that weeks start on Monday.
We have our ISO and Americans have their ANSI, everyone has something
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 starts the week on Fridays.
february 2026 mo tu we th fr sa su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28Motu weth, fr’sa su
february 2027 mo tu we th fr sa su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28I only go by the Linux “cal” command.
right! like, why complicate things?
But my cal starts on Sunday. What are your locale settings?
feb 2027
nice
I wish this is how we arranged it. Makes so much more sense
Alas, my brain is too used to wed in the middle
I have good news for you. Wednesday in German is Mittwoch=midweek
Yeah, becase it’s in the middle of the week. The weekend is after the end of the week.
Weekends can be like bookends, where you have one on each end.
ISO-8601 strikes again. Sunday week start master race rejoice
Monday is the start of the week and I will die on this hill
100%. Saturday and Sunday are the weekend, you know, like the end of the week.
Weekends can be like bookends, where you have one on each end.
ISO-8601 weeks start on Monday.
I don’t get it…
February starting on a Sunday also means two Friday 13th in a row, except in leap years.
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.
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 Roman calendar was originally only 10 months, but Julius Caesar inserted two new months in the middle, without renaming the last four.
Maybe the oldest tech debt in existence - the calendar was changed in 45 BC.
But then we’d have to deal with that lousy Smarch weather
The true ideal.
Combined with Holocene calendar and decimal time… hnrggh… one can dream! I actually designed a spreadsheet for exactly this and it works perfectly. Only issue is that it doesn’t auto-update, you need to edit an empty cell of the spreadsheet (doesn’t even need to be saved), for it to update to the current time.
People are superstitious and would never allow a 13th month
This looks so wrong.
Oh wow, my birthday is on a Sunday this year. I don’t have to get up early? Yaaay!
1 in 7 chance [if you sample from infinite years]
the first day of the month moves forward one weekday each year except mar-dec on a leap year which moves forward two weekdays
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?
