Sunday: Last Day or First Day ???

[edro]

How do you think of Sunday?

Is it the first day of the week, or the last day of the week?

I know most American calendars show it as the first day, but I have always thought of it as the last day.

 

[Mixolydian]

How do you think of Sunday?

Is it the first day of the week, or the last day of the week?

I know most American calendars show it as the first day, but I have always thought of it as the last day.

Well it's the first official day of the week, but it's also part of the weekend. :hmm: monday is the first day of the work week. i guess sunday is still the first day of the week.

 

[BoomerD]

How do you think of Sunday?

Is it the first day of the week, or the last day of the week?

I know most American calendars show it as the first day, but I have always thought of it as the last day.

I agree. Sunday is the LAST DAY of the week, regardless of how it's listed on the calendar. IMO, it's only first on the calendar to placate the religious folks.
(started way back in history when religion carried more weight than it does today)

 

[Black Octagon]

It's the first day of the week...

 

[Lifted]

I agree. Sunday is the LAST DAY of the week, regardless of how it's listed on the calendar. IMO, it's only first on the calendar to placate the religious folks.
(started way back in history when religion carried more weight than it does today)

If you're going to bring religion into it, I would think your reasoning is backwards.

Gen 2:3

God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

Of course the wrong religions believe it is Saturday.

 

[PenguinPower]

ISO says last...so it's last.

 

[homebrew2ny]

First day of the week, last day of my weekend.

It's a paradox, I know...

 

[PenguinPower]

If you're going to bring religion into it, I would think your reasoning is backwards.



Of course the wrong religions believe it is Saturday.

Except that the Jewish/Christian calendar has it as the first day.

 

[MontyAC]

First day of the week, last day of my weekend.

It's a paradox, I know...

I agree.

 

[nageov3t]

first day of the week on nearly every calendar, so it's the first day of the week in my head.

conveniently, it's also the first day of my work-week since I work Sunday - Wednesday (with Thurs/Fri/Sat off)

 

[Modular]

It's the last day of the week in my book.

 

[Broheim]

last day, anything else just seems ass backwards...

 

[Jumpem]

According to the calendar it is the first day. I view it is the last day, before starting the next week on Monday. I always thought that was how everyone viewed it.

 

[darkxshade]

If you're going to bring religion into it, I would think your reasoning is backwards.



Of course the wrong religions believe it is Saturday.

If God is so mighty, why did he have to rest?

 

[SKORPI0]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday

According to the Hebrew calendars and traditional Christian calendars, Sunday is the first day of the week.
According to the International Organization for Standardization ISO 8601 Sunday is the seventh and last day of the week.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_the_week#First_day_of_the_week

 

[IronWing]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday

According to the Hebrew calendars and traditional Christian calendars, Sunday is the first day of the week.
According to the International Organization for Standardization ISO 8601 Sunday is the seventh and last day of the week.

Damn godless standardizers.



Time for a Sunday song, it is.

And there's nothing short a' dying
That's half as lonesome as the sound
Of the sleeping city sidewalk
And Sunday morning coming down.

 

[Poulsonator]

Where I work, Sunday is the 2nd day of the pay week, so over the last few years, I've looked at it a bit differently. Still, I personally have always considered Sunday the last day of the week for everything else.

 

[Nintendesert]

I figure the work week is in between Saturday and Sunday is purely for ascetic reasons with centering those days in a calendar.

 

[Ksyder]

1st day of the week. Hard to enjoy Sunday as much as Saturday since the workweek starts the next day. I don't consider Sunday part of the previous week because I'm thinking about and acting upon what needs to be done for the next week.

 

[lxskllr]

It's clearly the first day...

Sunday mornin', praise the dawnin' It's just a restless feelin', by my side Early dawnin', Sunday mornin' It's just the wasted years so close behind

Watch out, the world's behind you There's always someone around you, who will call It's nothin' at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qK82JvRY5s

 

[edro]

Welcome to the last day of the week!

You can't split the weekend! They go together! Therefore, Sunday is the last day.

 

[soulcougher73]

Work week starts Monday so Sunday is last day of week.

 

[Ichinisan]

If you think of the week as a straight line, the line has two ends. So Sunday is at one end and Saturday is at the other. Both days are weekend days.

 

[Ken g6]

It's both. At the same time.

Doubleplusgood doublethink, yes?

 

[Murloc]

It's the last day of the week, I think it's like this in all of Europe, I've never seen anyone thinking about it the other way.

ISO says so and ISO usually fits with the french revolution standards that were spread across Europe and the world, except for some british colonies who still haven't given up on the british standards.