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| Thread ID: 146440 | 2018-08-05 03:52:00 | The week starts on Sunday | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1452302 | 2018-08-05 03:52:00 | Sunday is the first day of the week. Monday is the first day of the working week. That's the way it has always been although some have tried to say differently. I have seen some calendars that have Monday as the first day of the week but they have not really caught on. I would not buy a calendar like that. So would you buy a calendar that was anything but traditional? |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1452303 | 2018-08-05 04:36:00 | I would prefer a calendar that starts on Monday. All comes down to personal preference. ;) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1452304 | 2018-08-05 05:18:00 | Monday has always been the beginning of the week to me, Sunday is just the end of the week I don't believe in magical invisible fairy beings so Sunday is not a special day just the day before I start work again | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1452305 | 2018-08-05 05:24:00 | Sunday is the first day of the week. I have seen some calendars that have Monday as the first day of the week but .... I would not buy a calendar like that. Who says? Does it matter what day a calendar may start the week with? Traditional then we should be using the old Roman Calendar. The first day of the week (for most), Sunday has been set aside as the "day of the sun" since ancient Egyptian times in honour of the sun-god, beginning with Ra. The Egyptians passed their idea of a 7-day week onto the Romans, who also started their week with the Sun's day, dies solis. Not every culture has Sunday as its first day, and notable exceptions are found in the Slavic languages, where Sunday is the last day of the week and is not named in honour of the sun. For example, in Hungary Sunday is called Vasárnap and means "market day," and in Old Russian, where Sunday was sometimes called "free day." www.gizmodo.com.au |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1452306 | 2018-08-05 05:47:00 | I have found that when one retires, every day is like Saturday except for Sunday! Sunday is the day of rest as being retired can be quite strenuous . Ken :) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1452307 | 2018-08-05 08:33:00 | Sorry kenj, no days off permitted. You have to do your full 24 hours of being retired - every Sunday for the rest of your life... | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1452308 | 2018-08-05 08:35:00 | Weeks here start on Monday, just as they always have. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1452309 | 2018-08-05 22:14:00 | Yeah and the sabbath is really meant to be on Saturday en.wikipedia.org But it doesn't really matter, the work week starts on Monday for most of us so that's what feels like the start of the week. My calendar starts on Sunday, but I find it just as easy to use one that starts on a Monday. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1452310 | 2018-08-05 22:17:00 | 'on the seventh day he rested' : being Sunday , Gods day off . | 1101 (13337) | ||
| 1452311 | 2018-08-05 22:21:00 | If you read the link I posted you'll see the 7th day is Saturday and was always the sabbath, then it got changed to Sunday, the first day, somewhere in the 4th century. If there's anything consistent about Christianity, it's the inconsistency. Anyway these days are all arbitrary, we could just as easily have any number of days and call it a week and pick any of them to be the first. One numbering system is as valid as the next and the planet keeps doing it's thing regardless of how we count it. |
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