When does your week start?

Monday- Most of us live in the UK - So its Monday - Monday... As in Today ...Monday....

silly thread.
 
The On call rota I run is friday to Friday. The week starts on Monday though, unless you're wrong ;)
 
what if you on the doul, when does your week start then?

but for the normal people, despite work patterns a week is sunday to saturday.
Most see it as monday as thats when 90% of people work from till friday.
 
Quink said:
^^What are you on about? The week ends at the weekend - Saturday and Sunday, and the week therefore starts on Monday. Clearly :rolleyes:

What's all this 'Jews, Islams and Christians' nonsense?
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Technically the official beginning of the week is Sunday, the last day of the week while physically Saturday, symbolically it is also Sunday. This has been the case since the early Christian Church initiated the Jewish 7 day week system, it allowed for Sunday to be both the first day of the week and to be the symbolic eighth day of the week....It is known as the Octave.

So as the Gregorian Calendar is partly derived from the Western Liturgical Calendar, Sunday is therefore literally the first day of the week, and symbolically the last of the week even though the actual use of Octaves has been greatly reduced by the Church, the convention for Sunday being the first day of the week remains. This convention in itself derives from the Judeo-Christian tradition where God rested after the 6 days of creation, he made the following day after the Sabbath (Saturday) as the first day of the week....thus Sunday is the first day of the week....this is also found in pre-Gregorian Germanic and Greco-Roman 7 day week traditions.

Modern working weeks are entirely dependent on rotas and individual working practice and not to be confused with the official calendar system in Western European culture.
 
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