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I'm curious where you're from that Sunday isn't considered the first day of the week? I know Monday is often treated as such since it follows the "week end" but
by stardek 11y ago
I'm curious where you're from that Sunday isn't considered the first day of the week? I know Monday is often treated as such since it follows the "week end" but (in my very limited experience) I've never actually seen anything claiming that Monday is actually first.
- Swizec 11y agoEvery European calendar I've ever seen starts the week on Monday.
- ars 11y agoYah, it's pretty much a European thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#/media/File:First_Day_of_Week_World_Map.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#/media/File:First_Day_of_...
- nicky0 11y agoBoom. Great link. End of thread right there.
- tim333 11y agoGoogle's places API has the days numbered sunday : 0 through to saturday : 6 so I guess the US system has moved in to API land.
- thaumasiotes 11y agoThat map has a glaring error -- China counts Monday as the first day of the week, not Sunday.
- skj 11y agoAccording to the cousin comment by thaumasiotes, this is not true. It's just that Sunday comes "before" Monday, which is called day 1. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9674622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9674622)
- thaumasiotes 11y agoI feel safe in claiming that I speak for thaumasiotes when I say I didn't mean it that way. > it's true that Chinese generally consider Monday the beginning of the week My cousin comment responds to the claim that you can tell China begins the week on Monday because its name is "week one", 星期一. That claim is problematic; China does begin the week on Monday, but the name doesn't prove so.
- skj 11y ago> I feel safe in claiming that I speak for thaumasiotes when I say I didn't mean it that way. oops!
- iamcreasy 11y agoIn Muslim countries it's predominantly Saturday. Correct me if I am wrong.
- kendallpark 11y agoI was taught that Monday was the first day of the week in preschool here in the US. Looking back maybe it was some rogue teacher, but it always stuck. Monday is the first day.
- alinhan 11y agoI'm from Romania, and Monday is the first day of the week here. When we hear that in other countries Sunday is considered the first day of the week, sounds almost as weird as being told that they consider "z" to be the first letter of the alphabet. Also, it is very frustrating when a UI uses Sunday as the first day of the week, and I encounter that quite often.
- kelnos 11y ago"Weird" is in the eye of the beholder. As someone who grew up with Sunday always being considered the first day of the week, I find it weird to see places where day one is Monday.
- nicky0 11y agotl;dr You're weird! No, you're weird!
- ddoolin 11y agoIs it frustrating, though? I've seen it start on both days many times but it's never been frustrating, despite one being clearly different from what I've learned all my life.
- alinhan 11y agoWell, when I try to get something done in a calendar, having to do that remapping of the beginning and end of the weeks mentally... it gets in the way.
- lstamour 11y agoI'm from Canada, and it's probably because of all the US calendars we tend to get, but I'm used to Sunday being the first day on the calendar while mentally, I consider Monday the first day of the week. So I plan things where "next week" means "after Sunday" but I'm used to seeing weekend days bordering the weekdays on a month-long calendar. I tend to think Sunday = 0 also. It's kind of like metric vs. imperial. Canadians never did fully switch over, e.g. for weight, height or indoor thermostats (for some folks).
- Symbiote 11y agoMonday is first in Britain, which makes for annoying Web ui when the site isn't localised properly (and it's easy to leave it in en_US and not realise the problem). I once booked a flight on the wrong day because part way through the booking process the first day of the week in the calendar changed. Nursery rhymes with this order: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday%27s_Child http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday%27s_Child http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Grundy http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Grundy Chinese use 星期一 / "weekday one" for Monday.
- meesterdude 11y agoThank you for this! I NEVER knew this was something that could/would be different too. But I will have to keep that in mind if I ever store a wday value; or i guess even present a calendar! wow.
- thaumasiotes 11y ago> Chinese use 星期一 / "weekday one" for Monday. Well... it's true that Chinese generally consider Monday the beginning of the week, but that's not evidence. The days of the week are 一 (1)、二 (2)、三 (3)、四 (4)、五 (5)、六 (6) and 天 or 日 (day). Does day come before 1 or after 6 when you count? edit: the map lower down in the thread ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#/media/File:First_Day_of_Week_World_Map.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#/media/File:First_Day_of_... ) shows China as beginning its week on Sunday. That does not agree with my experience, or with the Chinese people I've asked this question of.
- KMag 11y ago> Chinese use 星期一 / "weekday one" for Monday. Sure, Monday through Saturday are numbered 1 to 6, but Sunday is "weekday Sky" or "weekday Heaven", which is considered to come before "weekday one".[1] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#/media/File:First_Day_of_Week_World_Map.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#/media/File:First_Day_of_...
- briandear 11y agoSo days_of_week[0] is actually Sunday. Assuming a zero based index.