• Johanno@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Sunday is actually the first day of the week. This is the the reason Wednesday is in the middle of the week and is called “Mittwoch” (Middle week) in German.

    • jaxxed@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      Sunday is the first day for those who inherited Saturday as a holy day.

    • umbraroze@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I’m in Finland, the week starts at Monday, Wednesday is “keskiviikko” (mid-week), and I always thought it was called that because it’s in the middle of the work week. Because naming the middle of the work week is very important, and nobody gives a damn about the calendar in the weekend, because it’s time to chill.

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      Achtually, it depends on the country. Wednesday is still in the middle of the work week if you start on Mondays

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      Well from some countries’ point of view, Monday is the first day of the week.

      I mean, the word we use to describe Saturdays and Sundays is Weekend (周末), so it actually makes sense for Monday to be the first of the week.

      Btw, Calandar apps have this option in settings:

      Which has a dropdown menu of options:

      Apparantly, some countries use Saturday as the first day of the week? 🤷‍♂️

      • pyre@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        I prefer Monday as well, but “end” doesn’t always mean “last point in a series”. it also means the furthest point of something, but could be on any direction, hence “both ends” is a thing. so weekends can mean the two days on either side of the week, Sunday being first and Saturday being last.

        I know that Arabic also has numbers for most days, 1 for Sunday, all the way to 5 for Thursday, but instead of 6 and 7 they named Friday “congregation” (the day Muslims congregate to pray together) and Saturday “sabbath” interestingly enough.

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          2 days ago

          But a weeks ARE a series of days, and thus have a beginning and an end. A stick can have two ends, a week has a clear beginning. And it’s on Monday.

        • Rubanski@lemm.ee
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          3 days ago

          But wouldn’t it have to be called “weekends” for your explanation to work?

          • pyre@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            probably. but then weekends as we say today would have to be called weekendses.