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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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