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So for all intents and purposes, the week actually starts on Monday in the US, if I understand what you're saying. For instance, if I were to tell you "Beginni

• thaumasiotes 8y ago
  If you said that to me at work, I'd understand Monday, because Sunday is not part of the work week. I'd likely understand it as Monday in other contexts too, because it's very rare for something to start on Sunday. Monday and Saturday are the transition points and thus the logical places to start doing something. But I might understand it as Sunday if context seemed to point that way. What I'm saying is that nothing is organized according to "the beginning of the week", so the question of which day is the beginning of the week doesn't have any implications.
  • bloak 8y ago
    No hard implications, but it might influence how you number the days (C99's tm_wday uses 0-6 with 0 = Sunday, which suggests a week starting with Sunday, particularly since tm_mon uses 0-11 with 0 = January, but is also compatible with the way the days are numbered in Chinese, with Monday = 1), and it might be related to how you work out which months have 4 weeks and which months have 5 weeks: it's unusual, but some part-time employees get 4 weeks' pay at the end of most months but 5 weeks' pay at the end of some months, bizarrely.
    • thaumasiotes 8y ago
      > it's unusual, but some part-time employees get 4 weeks' pay at the end of most months but 5 weeks' pay at the end of some months, bizarrely. Why would this be unusual? I'd expect pay-by-the-week to be more common for part-time employees, but it's not rare for FTEs either.