Daven Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Definitely Monday but when I worked at Bradford Royal Infirmary their roster week began on a Sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyR Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 A week is only a useful human concept for dividing time. It doesn't have any basis in reality. Is a "concept for dividing time" not reality? Seems pretty real to me, assuming that humans and time are both real, then the division of time for the convenience of humans is an entirely real thing. If what you mean is that, unlike years and days which are based on the movements of celestial bodies, then you're right there is no equivalent for weeks. Of course if you are referring to the fact that weeks are based on the time it took god to create the earth and all animals and plants then yes that is not based on reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Definitely Monday but when I worked at Bradford Royal Infirmary their roster week began on a Sunday My "on call" weeks begin on Friday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buck Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Sunday is the ideal end of the weekend, time to relax, have a few beers, light up the grill before the worst day of the week, the first day of the week, Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blake Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Which people are saying it is Sunday? Is this some particular religion? Which one has Sunday as the first day? The Jewish Sabbath, although it starts on Friday night, is Saturday so the first day of their working week is Sunday. Muslims don't really have a Sabbath the same way, but the nearest thing they have to it is Friday. So the first day of their working week, is Saturday. The Christian Sabbath is Sunday so their first day of the working week, is Monday You visibly see this in action every weekend in the Old City of Jerusalem. The shops in the Muslim quarter close first. Then the Jewish shops close. And then finally on Sunday, the Christian shops close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Shaw Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 (edited) If you accept that Saturday and Sunday are the 'weekend', and that the weekend is over by Monday morning, then the answer seems pretty obvious to me. Illogical. If a week has two ends (beginning, finishing), they're together the 'weekend'. So Saturday can be one end [finish], Sunday the other end [start], and the weekend [finish] is over at the end of Saturday. ---------- Post added 22-07-2016 at 15:15 ---------- ALSO: Think about this. A day is an observable phenomenon. A solar year is, too, and so is a lunar month (on which solar months are modelled). BUT where is there any basis for a week- other than in the Book of Genesis? Edited July 22, 2016 by Jeffrey Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berberis Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 A week is only a useful human concept for dividing time. It doesn't have any basis in reality. Yes it does. It's based on the universal constant of the time it takes our planet to orbit the sun. Just because you could divide the time into different segments, that doesn't mean it's not real. A metre for example is 1/10,000,000th the distance from the pole to the equator. A constant you can measure, but this is not the only way to divide the distance. The distance doesnt change but the division of the segments can be changed. I think you may be confused with things like the old imperial measurement system which is built on arbitrary, local measurements that do not conform to each other very well and were subject to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apelike Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 (edited) The first day of the Christian week is on Sunday. The first day of the working week is on Monday. ---------- Post added 22-07-2016 at 15:34 ---------- A metre for example is 1/10,000,000th the distance from the pole to the equator. I though that it had been revised in 1983 and was now based on the wavelength of light and the time it travels in a fraction of a second? Edited July 22, 2016 by apelike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davyboy Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikes10 Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 You want ISO 8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 Look under the heading Week dates The ISO week-numbering year starts at the first day (Monday) of week 01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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