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Re:Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1... by jimnotgym on Sunday October 27, 2019 @07:12PM (#21373075)
This sounds like something I might do. I am sure I am a special kind of 'date dyslexic'. I have very little concept of when things are happening. I refuse to discuss dates without my diary in front of me, because I have no concept of whether the date they gave me is weeks away or months away. If you told me now that I had to get something done by mid-November, that feels like an age away, the fact that I am on holiday for the next week wouldn't cross my mind either. I recently got undone by a calendar which had Sunday at the start of the week, visually speaking...unlike my normal Outlook calendar. It gives me a lot of anxiety, because I have some things I have to do (like authorising payroll, or filing tax returns) on certain days.

Is this a real condition, or am I just disorganised?

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Re:Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1... by xbhdhdhd on Sunday October 27, 2019 @09:25PM (#21373604)
Huh me too. This is the first time someone else has described this which ive found. I like the analogy to dyslexia.

It amazes me when people say things like "oh in april two years ago such and such". To me thats about the same as saying 25.535E6 seconds ago. Mostly meaningless

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Re:Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1... by jimnotgym on Monday October 28, 2019 @08:57AM (#21376456)
I was just enjoying that our clocks have changed back to UTC for the winter. I do some activities where times are in UTC all year. How can I struggle with adding or removing an hour?

> It amazes me...

Exactly this!

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Re:Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1... by mr_toad on Sunday October 27, 2019 @07:25PM (#21373136)
> I recently got undone by a calendar which had Sunday at the start of the week,

This used to be quite common. It seems to have fallen out of favour in the last 30 or 40 years.

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Re:Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1... by gumby on Sunday October 27, 2019 @08:56PM (#21373516)
European calendars are typically Mon-Sun, UK/AUS/US/CA etc typically Sun-Sat. Just as the more-common-in-Europe 24 hour times have been seeping into UK for decades, perhaps you're seeing the Mon-Sun calendar doing the same thing?
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Re:Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1... by mcv on Monday October 28, 2019 @08:05AM (#21376120)
Might be due to an ISO standard that has declared Monday to be the first day of the week. I strongly disagree: Sunday has always been the first day of the week, and Saturday the last. There was no good reason why this needed to be changed. The new standard didn't fix any problems with how weeks worked, and it breaks historical definitions (sabbath being the last day of the week, for example).

There's a children's song about the days of the week by a singer we like who starts his week on Monday, and my son dutifully corrects him every time he hears the song.

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Re:Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1... by kuroikyu on Monday October 28, 2019 @11:10AM (#21377659)
UK is most definitely Mon-Sun
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Re:Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1... by gumby on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:10PM (#21379778)
It is now, but that was the phenomenon I was responding to. When I was a kid in the 60s it was most clearly sun-sat
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Re:Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1... by testrun on Monday October 28, 2019 @01:26AM (#21374511)
AUS is also Mon - Sun
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Re:Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1... by gumby on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:16PM (#21379858)
It is now. Australia is moving towards international norms (thank goodness -- let's hope that happens with climate policy as well!).

When I was a little kid Australia was not metric, still used pounds, shillings and sixpences, and yes, the calendar had Sunday first on the left.

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Re:Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1... by mroche on Sunday October 27, 2019 @07:33PM (#21373165)
Do your calendars use a Min-Sun scheme? All of mine (US based) are Sun-Sat.
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Re:Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1... by inawarminister on Sunday October 27, 2019 @09:13PM (#21373568)
AFAIK, traditional Arabic/Jewish week starts at Sunday Therefore: Ahad (Day 1) for Sunday. Sabbath/Sabt (Day 7) for Saturday.
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