In what context?A ‘proper’ week is Sunday-Saturday.
In almost every other context I can think of, it also makes sense for Saturday & Sunday to be together.Given that engineering works usually run over a weekend, it makes sense for Sat and Sun to be together rather than at opposite ends of the week. This I suspect is the reason.
In what context?
For railway timetables?
UK and European standard is Monday to Sunday according to various Google sources, but they say in North America it’s Sun to Saturday.In what context?
For railway timetables?
In almost every other context I can think of, it also makes sense for Saturday & Sunday to be together.
I always think of a week starting on a Monday; for me it would make no sense for a week to start on a Sunday.
More context needed I think
Engineering weeks I assume?
Same on the buses. Bus weeks have always started on Sundays.The "railway week". So rostering and engineering works as some examples. For instance, the period end (4 weeks) is a Saturday.
I spent quite a few years getting paid weekly and the payroll week was Monday to Sunday. Timesheets were due by noon on Monday and pay was issued on Thursday.In fact thinking back every company I’ve worked for that’s done hourly pay has been Sunday- Saturday. It makes it easiest for payroll cut off to be Saturday night, for Monday morning payroll processing
It comes from the Old Testament. God supposedly created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. But this was a Jewish account so the seventh day was Saturday.Historically, in the UK , Sunday has always been the first day of the week, just as 1 Jan is the first day of the year.
In what way did the public timetable change ?The public timetable changed the other way decades ago, from Monday start to Sunday start - made operational sense.
Definitely not a churchgoer myself but The Bible would disagree. The Creator supposedly worked Monday to Saturday and chilled out on the Sunday, the Sabbath.Historically, in the UK , Sunday has always been the first day of the week, just as 1 Jan is the first day of the year.
I agree with others that real week runs from Monday to Sunday.
Used to be a bugbear of mine that for most purposes in railway that weeks are Sun - Sat when I was on rostered annual leave if the Sunday at the end of your leave wasn’t your rest day - who wants to come back to work midway through a weekend?!
it's week 30 starting tomorrow if that helps.
No he didn't - see post 13Definitely not a churchgoer myself but The Bible would disagree. The Creator supposedly worked Monday to Saturday and chilled out on the Sunday, the Sabbath.
It comes from the Old Testament. God supposedly created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. But this was a Jewish account so the seventh day was Saturday.
When I was very young the Radio Times coverage ran from Sunday to Saturday.
The start of the year in England was not firmly established as 1st Jan until the Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1752. Before that, the year was treated for some purposes as beginning on 25 March.
All of the stand alone TV mags still doI'm pretty sure that when I was young, Radio Times ran from Saturday to Friday!
It did indeed. Changed from Sunday to Saturday, to Saturday to Friday, in October 1960, resulting in two different week's editions covering programming for Saturday 8th October 1960.When I was very young the Radio Times coverage ran from Sunday to Saturday.
The Jewish faith has Saturday as the Sabbath as it is the seventh day of the week, on which God rested. The Christian church adopted Sunday as its holy day as a weekly celebration of the Resurrection. Traditionally both faiths consider Sunday to be the first day of the week. However for many secular purposes it is inconvenient for the weekend to be split between different weeks.Definitely not a churchgoer myself but The Bible would disagree. The Creator supposedly worked Monday to Saturday and chilled out on the Sunday, the Sabbath.
I’m the opposite, always start on a Sunday, but when I think about it, that doesn’t really make sense I guess. I guess it’s because technically weeks do start on a Sunday as opposed to a Monday?In what context?
For railway timetables?
In almost every other context I can think of, it also makes sense for Saturday & Sunday to be together.
I always think of a week starting on a Monday; for me it would make no sense for a week to start on a Sunday.
The other way of looking at it is that Saturday and Sunday are called the weekend, so they are at the end of the week. So Sunday can't be the first day of the week as it's not the weekend then.Definitely not a churchgoer myself but The Bible would disagree. The Creator supposedly worked Monday to Saturday and chilled out on the Sunday, the Sabbath.
The Jewish faith has Saturday as the Sabbath as it is the seventh day of the week, on which God rested. The Christian church adopted Sunday as its holy day as a weekly celebration of the Resurrection. Traditionally both faiths consider Sunday to be the first day of the week. However for many secular purposes it is inconvenient for the weekend to be split between different weeks.