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I don't think that's right, do you have any links? Italy, Spain, Ireland, England... actually all european countries (AFAIK) use Monday as the start of the wee

by loopbit 11y ago

I don't think that's right, do you have any links? Italy, Spain, Ireland, England... actually all european countries (AFAIK) use Monday as the start of the week. All countries with a strong christian tradition. The only countries I know that use Sunday as the start of the week are the US and Israel. A quick search in wikipedia[0] also mentions that it's used as the first day of the week in Hebrew tradition and in some muslim countries. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday#Position_in_the_week https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday#Position_in_the_week

DanBC 11y ago
Traditionally England does not use Monday as the start of the week. This is easy to see if you look at older calendars. At the moment there's some inconsistancy: Sunday to Saturday: https://www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave/pay https://www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave/pay Monday to Sunday: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/statutory-sick-pay-manually-calculate-your-employees-payments https://www.gov.uk/guidance/statutory-sick-pay-manually-calc... Googling for ["sunday to saturday" inurl:gov.uk] or ["monday to sunday" inurl:gov.uk] shows a bunch of examplesof each. EDIT: You asked for links, so here's something from 2009 asking why it's so hard to find a calendar that starts on a monday: http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-200944,00.html http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-200944,... > Why is it so hard to find a calendar that starts the week on a Monday, not a Sunday? It can't just be my family who gets outraged by this. And here's something else from 2009 which (weirdly) explaining why it's so hard to find calendars that start on Sunday, not Monday. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/6495398/Officially-Sunday-is-not-the-first-day-of-the-week.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/6495398/Officiall... tl;dr England used Sunday as the first day of the week until they started using ISO standards for time.
kgwgk 11y ago
The week in the liturgical calendar starts on Sunday. I don't know when did the civil calendar diverge, but you can see sometimes traces of the old usage in the names of the days of the week (segunda-feira, etc. in Portuguese, Mittwoch in German).

by loopbit 11y ago

DanBC 11y ago

Traditionally England does not use Monday as the start of the week. This is easy to see if you look at older calendars. At the moment there's some inconsistancy: Sunday to Saturday: https://www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave/pay https://www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave/pay Monday to Sunday: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/statutory-sick-pay-manually-calculate-your-employees-payments https://www.gov.uk/guidance/statutory-sick-pay-manually-calc... Googling for ["sunday to saturday" inurl:gov.uk] or ["monday to sunday" inurl:gov.uk] shows a bunch of examplesof each. EDIT: You asked for links, so here's something from 2009 asking why it's so hard to find a calendar that starts on a monday: http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-200944,00.html http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-200944,... > Why is it so hard to find a calendar that starts the week on a Monday, not a Sunday? It can't just be my family who gets outraged by this. And here's something else from 2009 which (weirdly) explaining why it's so hard to find calendars that start on Sunday, not Monday. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/6495398/Officially-Sunday-is-not-the-first-day-of-the-week.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/6495398/Officiall... tl;dr England used Sunday as the first day of the week until they started using ISO standards for time.

kgwgk 11y ago

The week in the liturgical calendar starts on Sunday. I don't know when did the civil calendar diverge, but you can see sometimes traces of the old usage in the names of the days of the week (segunda-feira, etc. in Portuguese, Mittwoch in German).