When do weeks start

As one user writes on Reddit :. The truth is, the first and last days of the week vary from country to country based on culture and religion. In Saudi Arabia, for example, the last day of the week is Thursday. As one person points out for The Telegraph :. You should be able to determine which day feels better for you to "start" your week. For many, Monday is the correct choice. Every vote is a voice that tells a story. Is Sunday the first day of the week or the last?

The Tylt. By Jessie Blaeser. Join the conversation. Real-time Voting. Sunday is the 7th and final day. Holistics Docs 3. Menu Introduction What is Holistics? How to create a Point Map? How to create a Custom Map How to create a Heatmap? Migrating to new Holistics 2. Introduction By default, Holistics considers Monday as the "start of the week". Are you a fan of Sunday fun-day, do you suffer from the Monday blues?

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Monday is the first day of the week. Maybe for those of Jewish faith Saturday is the day of rest, but for Christians, Sunday is the last day of rest. It is irritating that in the States you have to make an effort to find calendars where the week beings properly with Monday, and ends Sunday. You are so right. I have been saying this for the past 45 years and everyone that I mentioned that says that did not realize that or they did not care.

I care. I always considered the week to be like a line of string. There are two ends to a string. The top end and the bottom end. Sunday would be at the top, beginning the week, and Saturday at the bottom, ending the week. Usually nowadays, Monday is the first day of the week. Calendars in many European countries, in particular, now follow the ISO decision by starting the week on Monday. Airline timetables also number the days from Monday as 1, Tuesday as 2, Wednesday as 3, etc.

Nowhere in the Bible does it say anything about the Sabbath Shabbat being on Sunday-it names Saturday only. Yes Sammy. You are right. Read and understand the holy bible, only then will you understand the Sabbath Saturday. I will not be changing that.

Want another bonus fact? Instead, they are called by ordinal numbers, like this:. So, according to Portuguese the week would start on Sunday, since Monday is the second day. I always wanted to know why it is so different in Portuguese, since in other Latin languages, as Spanish and French the days follow the planet names, like in English.

And every country in the world except the US begins the week on Monday. Generalizing a bit, I am aware, it seems like most western cultures regard Monday as the first day of the week and Sunday the last.

Looking at people around me, from many different western and asian countries, I know of no one who actually considers Sunday to be the first day of the week.