@benjamineskola @rl_dane in some parts of the world, yes 😉 the US, South Korea, and Japan, for example, use Sunday as an official start.
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@rl_dane but weeks start on Monday, not Sunday
@benjamineskola @rl_dane in some parts of the world, yes 😉 the US, South Korea, and Japan, for example, use Sunday as an official start.
@ianthetechie @benjamineskola @bbbhltz
Ooops! Perfection comes to Europe next year! XD
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@ianthetechie @benjamineskola @rl_dane Ah cool
I grew up with a Sunday start
Then when I made it to middle school the teachers told us that Monday was the first day
@bbbhltz @ianthetechie @benjamineskola @rl_dane
Might have something to do with everything being closed over here on sundays, so it's kind of a useless day to start on, where everything is closed and everyone just try to do all the stuff they didn't get around to in the beginning of the week :p
@sotolf @bbbhltz @ianthetechie @benjamineskola
Yeah, I'm not sure how our weekend got structured to include the canonical first day of the week.
I need to read up on that.
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@bbbhltz @ianthetechie @rl_dane I’ve heard people calling Sunday the first day of the week here (GB) but as far as I’ve ever seen, everyone always behaves as if Monday is the first day of the week.
And according to ISO 8601, weeks start on Monday, so I just think of ‘weeks start on Sunday’ people as being equivalent to people who measure in feet and inches, etc.
@benjamineskola @bbbhltz @ianthetechie
AFAIK, Sunday start has historical significance, but I'm not sure when the whole Monday start thing started.
Maybe just because it's the start of the workweek.
@rl_dane Ayy someone posted on the ShellOneLiner tag 