Culture · 6 pages · 12 min
Why Monday is not the first day everywhere
Monday begins the week in some counts and calendars. Sunday begins it in others.
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From the opening
Monday is the first day of the week in some civil standards and on many European calendars, and it is not the first day in others. The week is a circle; which day you call the start is a convention laid on that circle, not a fact the days announce by themselves. The opening covers a circle needs a chosen start, iSO Monday, Sunday-first grids, and work week versus calendar column.
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Inside
- A circle needs a chosen start
- ISO Monday, Sunday-first grids
- Work week versus calendar column
- The same date, different column
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- ISO 8601 and Monday as day one
- Sunday-first calendar grids and Jewish day counting from Sunday