WTF is up with the notion that Sunday is the first day of the week?

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles

Originally posted by: Turin39789

Originally posted by: CPA
Sunday the beginning of the week, driving on the right side of the road, the decimal system, using farenheit instead of celcius, American Football....these things are why I love the US. We set our own course. To hell with everyone else. Seriously.

EFF that. Sunday is the end of the weekend.

Sunday IS the end of the weekend, but it is also the beginning of the week...

weeks are cyclical, thus the beginning is the end is the beginning...

The end of sunday is the beginning of the week, and the end of sunday is monday.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: halik
Any ideas? About half of all calendar apps come with sunday as the first day of the week (and then i gotta waste my time flipping it to normal)... where did that come from?

Monday might be normal for effete, chain-smoking, French university students, but for normal non-socialist ,hard-working Americans it's Sunday.

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Since when has Monday been considered the "normal" the beginning of the week?

Since Sunday was part of the "weekend"
Seems pretty logical to me

Fair enough, but logic does not a cultural understanding make. The accepted US cultural understanding (so far as I have always seen it) is that Sunday is the first day of the week. As others have pointed out just look at pretty much any calendar you pick up.

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: AreaCode707

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Since when has Monday been considered the "normal" the beginning of the week?

Since Sunday was part of the "weekend"
Seems pretty logical to me

Fair enough, but logic does not a cultural understanding make. The accepted US cultural understanding (so far as I have always seen it) is that Sunday is the first day of the week. As others have pointed out just look at pretty much any calendar you pick up.

How old are you? I wonder if it is a generational thing. Everyone I deal with has always considered Monday to be the start and Sunday to be the end.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Oh noes, it inconveniences you when most people consider Sunday the first day! Heaven forbird! :roll:

 

[chitwood]

who the hell cares

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: Turin39789

Originally posted by: AreaCode707

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Since when has Monday been considered the "normal" the beginning of the week?

Since Sunday was part of the "weekend"
Seems pretty logical to me

Fair enough, but logic does not a cultural understanding make. The accepted US cultural understanding (so far as I have always seen it) is that Sunday is the first day of the week. As others have pointed out just look at pretty much any calendar you pick up.

How old are you? I wonder if it is a generational thing. Everyone I deal with has always considered Monday to be the start and Sunday to be the end.

Then they have never owned or seen a calendar.

 

[feralkid]

Find the nearest shop that sells calendars and take a flamethrower to it.


Godspeed to you!

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: Turin39789

Originally posted by: AreaCode707

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Since when has Monday been considered the "normal" the beginning of the week?

Since Sunday was part of the "weekend"
Seems pretty logical to me

Fair enough, but logic does not a cultural understanding make. The accepted US cultural understanding (so far as I have always seen it) is that Sunday is the first day of the week. As others have pointed out just look at pretty much any calendar you pick up.

How old are you? I wonder if it is a generational thing. Everyone I deal with has always considered Monday to be the start and Sunday to be the end.

Then they have never owned or seen a calendar.

Now that was a daft leap.

 

[destrekor]

Sunday is the day I hate most, and I'd put it as the first day of the week.
Why? I do all my homework on Sundays, which means it's the start of my work week.
And I hate that day, because it teases me by having no scheduled classes, but I tend to work the hardest.

Actually, half of Sunday is the start of the work week. I take the first half as a continuation of days of rest.

 

[LS21]

SHOMER SHABBAS

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: ivan2
because it IS the first day of the week.

 

[40Hands]

Monday has always been the first day of the week in my mind.

 

[acheron]

Originally posted by: Turin39789

Originally posted by: AreaCode707

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Since when has Monday been considered the "normal" the beginning of the week?

Since Sunday was part of the "weekend"
Seems pretty logical to me

Fair enough, but logic does not a cultural understanding make. The accepted US cultural understanding (so far as I have always seen it) is that Sunday is the first day of the week. As others have pointed out just look at pretty much any calendar you pick up.

How old are you? I wonder if it is a generational thing. Everyone I deal with has always considered Monday to be the start and Sunday to be the end.

I do not believe for a second that there is any person anywhere in the US that doesn't think that Sunday is the first day of the week.

 

[mugs]

Welcome to the United States of America. That's how we roll.

Monday is the first day of the week in some other countries (such as European countries). Not here.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: LS21
SHOMER SHABBAS

:laugh:

Originally posted by: acheron
I do not believe for a second that there is any person anywhere in the US that doesn't think that Sunday is the first day of the week.

There are... but they weren't born and raised here.

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: acheron

Originally posted by: Turin39789How old are you? I wonder if it is a generational thing. Everyone I deal with has always considered Monday to be the start and Sunday to be the end.

I do not believe for a second that there is any person anywhere in the US that doesn't think that Sunday is the first day of the week.

I suppose you can believe whatever you want.

 

[her209]

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, Saturday

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
I never understood that either. Thing is, Sunday is the day God rested after he finished creating the universe, so even if you go by history they should have made it the last, not the first.

That is generally considered to be Saturday. Christian churches usually hold services on Sunday, the day after the Jewish sabbath, the day of the resurrection.

To answer the OP's question - I believe religion is why we consider Sunday to be the first day of the week. Apparently it's been this way for more than 2000 years.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: CPA
Sunday the beginning of the week, driving on the right side of the road, the decimal system, using farenheit instead of celcius, American Football....these things are why I love the US. We set our own course. To hell with everyone else. Seriously.

wut

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: CPA
Sunday the beginning of the week, driving on the right side of the road, the decimal system, using farenheit instead of celcius, American Football....these things are why I love the US. We set our own course. To hell with everyone else. Seriously.

wut

I heard those A-rabs use base-6, because they have 6 fingers on each hand.

Or something.

He might have meant that we use a period as our decimal separator, and other countries use a comma.

 

[PepePeru]

I blame the 7th day Adventists.

 

[PepePeru]

Originally posted by: Arcadio
In Colombia, the week starts on Monday. I think it's true for all of South America. Calendars and computers reflect this.

I guess that's why Monday in Portuguese is segunda-feira?

where, 'segunda' means second?

 

[zinfamous]

It's always been Sunday. You just look at Monday as the first day because that's when work, which tends to be 90% of one's waking life, starts up for the week.

But it depends on where you are. Hell, some eastern European countries have Saturday at the beginning of the week on their calenders. Try to figure that one out.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: fleshconsumed

Originally posted by: halik
Who came up with this idiocy?

Same idiot who decided to start array enumeration with 0.



BTW, Russia and I believe Europe have Monday to mark the start of the week on the calendars.

That idiot understood binary math.