Looking forward to the weekend

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1296792]

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[andrewducker]

Of course, if you're Jewish then it's Sunday. Because the seventh day is the Sabbath.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Sunday-Monday is my weekend, therefore the week starts on Tuesday. i don't hold with this religious mumbo jumbo about Sabbaths.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Sunday is and has always been the start of a new week. Monday is just the first day of work.

[captainlucy.livejournal.com]

I know technically Sunday is the first day of the week (the Sabbath being Saturday), but when you work a 9-5, Monday-Friday job, technicalities sort of get thrown out the window.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I know Sunday is traditional, but a weekend-divided week is much more natural to most people nowadays (though I'm surprised so many). Certainly if I'm looking at a diary of a week, it helps to see Sat and Sun together for lots of reasons.

However, I'm interested it seems no-one ever thinks of weeks starting on Sat. Is it a philosophical preference, that you want your "recreation" after you "work"? (I half-expected to be the only loner who did.) Or is it because Fri night feels like part of the w/e? Or just because diaries are printed like that?

[pickwick.livejournal.com]

Can anyone explain WHY Sunday is the traditional start of the week? I mean, isn't it meant to be the day of rest, and wouldn't you normally have that at the end of a week, not the start?

My work tries to insist that weeks start on Saturday, which is a BBC thing - all the TV schedules run Sat-Fri.

[red-phil.livejournal.com]

Where is the beginning of a circle.

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

Sunday, but then I'm a Christian and go to church and I don't have a job, so the day I go to church feels like the start of a new week. If that makes sense. Though I always go to church for Mass on a Wednesday too, but that's different [grin] I don't know why, it's just a gut feeling!

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I really have three different answers.

First; I was brought up to believe it was Sunday, that Sunday is the 'right' answer to this question (and it's what I've ticked) -- it's the day of the Resurrection and therefore starts the week anew.

Second; my working week starts on Monday and like many people I think 'hey, ho, a new week'.

But third: I don't work Fridays, and in many real senses my actual week, the important week, the week that matters, starts at 6pm on Thursday evening.

[andabusers.livejournal.com]

My food arrives on Tuesday. Thus it is the beginning of the week. :)

[intelligentrix.livejournal.com]

Curiously, I find that when I go to buy a calendar I am given the choice of ones that have Sunday at the beginning of a new row of days and some that have Monday. My natural inclination is to get the one starting on Monday, simply because I like to be able to write my weekend plans across both Saturday and Sunday. However, in looking around the office I notice that all our calendars start the row with Sunday. Hmm.

When I visualize the week in order to figure out, say, what date next Wednesday will be, I see it as a series of hills and valleys of differing heights, with Saturday and Sunday being the lowest points.