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> This is perfectly unambiguous except for Sunday and Monday because people just can't agree on what day a week starts :-) I always thought that the “week star
by yoz-y 5y ago
> This is perfectly unambiguous except for Sunday and Monday because people just can't agree on what day a week starts :-)
I always thought that the “week starts on Sunday” was only an American thing. TIL
- timvdalen 5y agoAs another Dutch person, I've never seen this disagreement here either. I also associate that ambiguity solely with Americans.
- ghusbands 5y agoI've also suffered similar ambiguity in the UK.
- Joker_vD 5y agoThe word for Tuesday is "Tyr's day" in Germanic languages, "Mars' day" in Romance languages, "second day" in Balto-Slavic languages, and "third day" in Greek, so it's not even the Catholic/Orthodox division, it's just... weird.
- edanm 5y agoProbably not what you have in mind, but in Israel, the week does start on Sunday. (Sunday is also literally translated to "First Day" in Hebrew). I believe that this is also the case in other countries. I think the weekend being Saturday-Sunday is specifically a Christian thing, with Saturday being a day of rest an originally Jewish thing, and that other countries have different weekends.