Weeks start on Mondays!
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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.
Next year for Monday fans.
this
We could have 12 perfect months s year if we switched to a 13 month calendar.
plus one leap day right?
Yah basically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
[D] is the weekday number, from 1 through 7, beginning with Monday and ending with Sunday.
I always knew starting the week on Sunday was messed up. Thankfully there's an ISO to back me up
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Weeks start on Mondays
You need the metric system to understand that
According to my workplace, the week starts on Saturday.
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?
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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.
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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.
Including fucking paper.
Standard printing and normal daily usage paper in the US is 5.9 mm wider and 17.6 mm shorter than the A4 paper.
That's what the country was built on, the right to be as stupid as you want to be.
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february 2026
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This should be always. We could easily have 13 months with an even 28 days, or four weeks, every year. But, you're going to say, "What about that last day?" That's new year's day, it's once a year, not ever a regular day of the week, and every leap year we get 2 of them and make a weekend of it. Those remainder calendar days don't need to be a particular day of the week, we can just make them holidays and stop worrying about it. Or we do keep them as regular days of the week and the calendar shifts by a day or two every year. I don't really care. I just want the months and weeks to be at least a little less chaotic. And if there is going to be a chaotic little remainder weekend every year, it might as well be a party.
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What ?
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.
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Disordians want a word
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.
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!
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