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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by irrational on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:49PM (#32976686)
Why is it illogical to have Sunday be the first day of the week? Maybe Saturday is logically the first day of the week since nobody in their right minds would want a work day (assuming a 5 day work Week) to be the first day. Like eating dessert first, starting the week with a day off just makes logical sense.
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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by Jorengarenar on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:55PM (#32976756)
Why? One word: weekEND
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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by scheme271 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @10:31PM (#32978662)
Except for Friday-Saturday is the weekend in quite a few countries especially islamic ones. Israel also has Friday-Saturday weekends to make observing the Sabbath easier. There may be other exceptions as well.
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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by irrational on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:25PM (#32977012)
https://youtu.be/zhfpBW-nUWk
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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by dwighttk on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:05PM (#32976858)
Which end?
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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by messe on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:22PM (#32976984)
The one at the end of the week, and not the start.
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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by irrational on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:25PM (#32977015)
Maybe it is both ends. Like book ends.
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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by thfuran on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:46PM (#32977190)
But then surely a consecutive Saturday and Sunday would be weekends rather than a single weekend?
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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by irrational on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:39PM (#32977637)
The concept of a weekend is a recent development that I don’t think really corresponds to what the first day of the week is (which was conceived of as Sunday for thousands of years before the weekend was invented).

When the weekend was invented, Sunday as the sabbath was still a real thing for many people. I have to wonder if originally only Saturday was conceived as the weekend, followed by the week start and sabbath of Sunday. Then, as Sunday became secularized, the weekend was extended to include Sunday.

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