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Title: So when does your week start?
Post by: Snoopy on September 22, 2008, 07:53:26 AM

My Google calendar says it starts on a Sunday ~ but my filofax and the year planner on the wall places Monday firmly at the start of each week. The vexed question of which day starts the week has led to many an argument in  Snoopy Towers over the years.
When gainfully employed I never actually felt the week got underway until Wednesday when I could at least see the weekend looming but my upbringing of "6 days shalt thou labour and on the seventh thou shalt rest" coupled with the old Sunday Trading laws have always led me to argue that the first day of the week is Monday when the 6 days of labour recommence. Needless to say that Mrs S#2 disagrees but then she is Jewish by birth (but not by religion).
I do happily accept that some religions prefer to have their day of rest (Sabbath) on a Saturday, although to be accurate it is from sunset on Friday until sunset on Saturday.
But what thinks the team? .......  Does the week start today (Monday) or did it commence yesterday?

Title: Re: So when does your week start?
Post by: Barman on September 22, 2008, 08:03:07 AM

Monday, obviously...   ::)

Title: Re: So when does your week start?
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 22, 2008, 08:14:27 AM

It never stops.  noooo:

Title: Re: So when does your week start?
Post by: Nick on September 22, 2008, 08:26:48 AM

Quote from: Barman on September 22, 2008, 08:03:07 AM

Monday, obviously...   ::)

But how can you tell?

Title: Re: So when does your week start?
Post by: Uncle Mort on September 22, 2008, 08:38:50 AM

For me the week starts on the Monday. Also the weekend is Saturday and Sunday the the week start must be Monday.

The calendar on the wall (freebie from a Dutch shipping company) starts Monday, my computer organiser's diary page starts Monday but oddly the little calendar in the corner of it starts Sunday.

Title: Re: So when does your week start?
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 22, 2008, 09:51:00 AM

For me the week starts after 6pm on a Sunday  evening when that feeling of doom and gloom seeps into your veins.

The weekend is effectively from 6pm on Friday to 6pm on Sunday 

Title: Re: So when does your week start?
Post by: Barman on September 22, 2008, 10:40:18 AM

Quote from: Uncle Mort on September 22, 2008, 08:38:50 AM

For me the week starts on the Monday. Also the weekend is Saturday and Sunday the the week start must be Monday.

The calendar on the wall (freebie from a Dutch shipping company) starts Monday, my computer organiser's diary page starts Monday but oddly the little calendar in the corner of it starts Sunday.

Agreed Uncle... Saturday and Sunday are the weekend, ipso facto the week must start on Monday...  whistle: