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The comment at the bottom about the US weekend tickled me. I never really thought about it, but holy guacamole, is it weird that Americans have the week startin
by keerthiko 13y ago
The comment at the bottom about the US weekend tickled me. I never really thought about it, but holy guacamole, is it weird that Americans have the week starting on a Sunday, and consider it part of the weekend. Why the HECK are calendars printed with Sunday at the front? This doesn't even need any kind of "restructuring of the Gregorian Calendar or adopting a new more sensible one" (as the rest of this thread seems to be all about), just stop printing/displaying calendars in a disjointed, retarded fashion...
I'm sure it had some meaningful significance in the past, but really, I doubt anyone will get mad if you started printing the calendar from the Monday on the left, in America too.
- lmm 13y agoSunday has always (FSVO) been the start of the week - it's not an American thing at all (indeed I've found Europeans get more confused when you don't start a week on Sunday). The Sabbath - the seventh day of the week referred to in Genesis - was Saturday, and Jews still celebrate it as such - Christians moved a lot of the way it's treated to Sunday. "Weekend" is just a catchy name; "weekboundary" would be much more cumbersome.
- edoloughlin 13y agoI'm European and I start the week on Monday. I don't think it makes me more confused than I normally am.
- threedaymonk 13y agoAlthough "end", when used for time, usually refers to the chronologically later boundary of a period, there are other senses of the word in which an end can also be a start: a line has two ends, and we say "from end to end", for example. Thus, I don't think it's necessarily contradictory to speak of an end of a week that also comes at the start - and that's without even thinking about the inherently cyclical nature of the week.