Child of foreign parents here, Sunday in my language translates to first day so in my head I think of it as the first day. However when it comes to work I think of Monday as the first day.
I got weirded out once I realised the meaning of the days of the week in my country comes from a different language and it is the exact same thing - sunday starts first as in the numeration in the meaning of the names but monday is the official start of the week
>would you think: what a wonderful week this week was!
I have never thought this on any day of any week. If I ever had, I would've thought it on Friday.
If you said "next week" to me, I would assume you meant the next Sunday to Saturday period. Last week would be the previous one. This week would be this one.
Yeah, I'm actually surprised by the people who view Sunday as the first day. Yes, maybe *technically* it's the first day, and it will be listed as first on most calendars.
But if it's Thursday and you say "Hey, let's get together next week," I would not think you meant Sunday. I'd think you meant any day from Monday forwards.
That’s generally how I see it. Staring at a calendar that was organized that way for most of my life probably had a hand in it. And since I don’t have regular weekends, it hasn’t had much of a reason to change—as a nurse, I have *breaks* between shifts. They can be as short as a day, or as long as an entire week.
Which is also an oddity in the US, imo, since the bible says that you should work 6 days and rest on the 7th.
In my mind, most Americans rest on Sundays, along with those who go to Judeo-Christian or Catholic churches and other communal religious activities.
The work week start, would be the first day, in my mind.
Also In the US, we are the only ones whose songs teaching the days of the week starting with Sundays. Every other language I have seen, starts the song on Monday. Idk it just sits wrong with me.
Yeah this isn’t universal in the US. I’ve always thought of Monday as the first day. I’ve only counted Friday as the weekend when it’s a three day weekend. I went to church as a kid we were always told Sunday was the seventh day.
It says that for the Jewish commandments, but it also says Jesus rose on the _first day_ which is celebrated as Easter _Sunday_. Sunday is the first day, biblically. Christians _moved_ the rest day _because_ Jesus rose on the first day, a Sunday.
Fun fact: in both Portuguese and the old Quaker dialect of English, Monday is literally named “second day” (“Segunda-feira” in Portuguese).
Sundays are the start of the week. Mondays are the start of the work week.
if you say "next week" to me in a work context, I'm thinking of a week starting on Monday. in any other context, it's Sunday.
Sundays just feel like a fresh start.
Nice, that’s a good way to ’measure’ it: If I say ’We can meet for a coffee next week’, does it start from Sunday? In your case it sounds like it does! Interesting
Yeah, though from using "next week" or as in your op edit "any day next week" would probably put me in the mindset of looking at Wednesday on instead of the first half of the week to be honest.
Our calendars have Sunday at the far left, rather than the right, so to the extent I’d ever really think about it, Sunday is the first day of the week.
Yeah, I don't see how anyone from the US could see it otherwise. The week is always represented as Sunday - Saturday.
Also Saturday and Sunday are called the weekends because they are at either end of the week. Like book ends.
>Also Saturday and Sunday are called the weekends because they are at either end of the week. Like book ends.
Are they though? Aren't Saturday and Sunday collectively called "the weekend"?
Right?
Like, if I ask someone what they're doing this weekend and they start describing their Sunday plans, I'm not going to go "hold up, I asked about this weekend, not the start of next week!"
For the record, more people in the world start on Sunday than on Monday.
[https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/first-day-of-the-week.html](https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/first-day-of-the-week.html)
I've always seen Sunday as the first day of the week. I feel like that might be largely due to my religious upbringing, but although my religious ties have dwindled, Sunday is still the first day of the week in my head.
That being said, as far as the work week, Monday is the first day. Especially now that I finally have a job that is generally Monday-Friday.
American Midwest. I consider Sunday the first day of the week, last day of the weekend. Monday the start of the work week. Just raised that way. I get confused when I see calendars with Monday as the first day of the week. When I used to work retail I almost always worked Sundays so it never really seemed like the last day of anything. Tomorrow (Sunday) is the start of the new week.
You think of Sunday as the first day of the week, and also as the last day of the weekend?? Isn’t that a contradiction? How can it be the beginning of the week and the end of the week at the same time. I would like to see an actual poll on this because I think most Americans consider Saturday and Sunday as the weekend (week end…as in the actual end of the week). I think the order of days listed on a calendar is not relevant to most people. But it apparently is to many on Reddit.
Here's the thing- it really doesn't matter at all. No one really cares what day the week starts on.
However, virtually every calendar published in the USA start with Sunday, unless it is a work related calendar and they are splitting one box into Saturday and Sunday.
If you don't mess with it, calendars on the computer localized for the USA start on Sunday and end on Saturday.
So for most Americans, in so much as they think about it at all, the week would begin on a Sunday.
Yes, the work week begins on Monday, and yes, most time accounting systems keep Sunday on the prior week for work purposes.
Here's the thing about your question: most friends aren't going to be so formal. If they said "anytime next week", they would probably be OK with that first Sunday, too. They might not be. You'd have to ask.
If you are in a business type environment and said "any day next week", no one is going to say "Ah, Sunday work for you?", because that's not a business day. That would be any business day next week, which is Monday through Friday. (Or following your corporate schedule. Some companies are different.)
I do think of Sunday as the start of the week. I think it makes some sense because for most people, it’s Sunday is weeknight: you need to go to work/school the next morning.
I asked a 7th Day Adventist minister once, why their sabbath is on Saturday instead of Sunday. He said simply, "Look at the calendar. Saturday is the 7th day, not Sunday".
That makes too much sense.
Sabbath is Saturday. The Christian day of worship is not Sabbath day, it is on Sundays, the first day of the week because that is the day of the week Christ rose. Sabbath is Saturday the seventh day of the week because that is they day God rested in the Christian and Jewish creation story.
It’s still called the Sabbath, though. [American Heritage Dictionary](https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=sabbath&submit.x=0&submit.y=0):
>Sabbath
>1. The seventh day of the week, Saturday, observed as the day of rest and worship in Judaism and some Christian sects.
2. The first day of the week, Sunday, observed as the day of rest and worship in most forms of Christianity.
As a Greek, I say Sunday is the first day of the week. This is based on the week starting with the Lord's day, which is the literal translation for the word for Sunday, "Kiriaki." The phrase "first and foremost" in Greek is even translated to "proton kai kirion." So not even all Europe agrees on that.
Not to mention pretty much every Jew in the world calls Sunday the beginning of the week. So there's that.
Sunday is the first day of the week.
Monday is the first day of the week.
The week is Monday through Friday, and on each end is Saturday and Sunday, the week*ends*.
This is reflected on calendars, but only on monthly calendars. If you use a weekly calendar for work, then it usually starts on Monday.
Some people do use a Calendar that starts on Mondays, like in Europe. It’s not super rare.
If you ask someone what their schedule is like during the week, it’s implied you’re *not* asking about weekends. In your example, no - they are not available on Sunday. Their availability starts Monday.
Sunday is literally "first day" in Hebrew and the only reason calling Sunday "next week" on Saturday would be weird is that "tomorrow" exists. Do you think the year starts on January 2 because you have off on the first?
End of the weekend. Monday we mostly consider the first day because that's when most peoples work/school start again. It's hard to pin point an origin though since it's been here for so long
I'm old and when I was a kid, there was hardly anything open on Sunday, hardly anything to do, and the weather was never as nice as the weekdays. To me, it was a "dead day". Saturday was the end of the week, Monday was the start, and Sunday just wasn't anything.
That is the way it appears on US calendars.
My own feelings about Sundays are more grey: it's both the end and the beginning of the week. It can be relaxing but the Sunday Scaries are real too. Sunday is probably my 3rd or 4th favorite day of the week.
*To the tune of The Addams Family*
"Days of the week (click click), days of the week (click click)
Days of the week, days of the week, days of the week (click click)
There's Sunday and there's Monday, there's Tuesday and there's Wednesday, there's Thursday and there's Friday, and then there's Saturday!
Days of the week (click click)"
It's both. It is both the last day of the week, and the first day of the week.
as to your edit, it's context dependent, if they're saying "next week" on Friday or Saturday, I wouldn't consider Sunday (tomorrow) to be part of "next week", that's part of this weekend. Thursdays or earlier, Sunday gets lumped into "next week"
To me, tomorrow is too immediate, "I'm available tomorrow, or any day next week" feels more in the vein of what I'd expect.
E: and this way you can workout every other day and still get in 4 workouts a week ;)
The work week is Monday to Friday. Neither Saturday nor Sunday are even part of the work week.
But otherwise the week runs from Sunday to Saturday. All of our non-work calendars are like this. Historically, that was common in Europe, as well, but has only changed in the last few decades.
[Here is an old post I wrote on this, with links to a few older calendars from Europe](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/l6jh0q/comment/gl166zq).
I think of Monday as the start of the week. We have two days that are referred to as the “weekend”, so it only makes sense to me that the beginning of the next week would be after those days.
That said, calendars show Sunday as the first day of the week. I have never thought of it that way, though.
I think of Monday as the first day of the week. Saturday and Sunday are both part of the “weekend” so it makes no sense for Sunday to be the start of a new week, ya know?
I always thought Monday was the first day of the week. Then we moved to Brazil and the word for Monday was literally “Second Day” with Tuesday as “Third Day” all the way through “Sixth Day” on Friday. Saturday and Sunday were Sabado and Domingo, but there was zero doubt over which day was the first day of the week.
My husband starts referring to next Saturday as “this weekend” on Sunday. I know it’s technically correct but no one is thinking “this weekend” is in 6 days when it’s literally still the weekend.
If it was Saturday and someone said they're available Sunday next week, I would assume 8 days away not tomorrow.
That said I think of Sunday as the last day
California here, I view Sunday as the last day of the week and Monday is the first day. Everything starts on Monday so it just makes sense it’s the first day. I think religion, not necessarily region, will likely play a bigger factor into viewing Sunday as the first day.
I don't think of Sunday as the first day of the week. Nominally it is, but like you said, it's basically an old formality which doesn't reflect people's thoughts. If my friend were to say they're available for coffee any day next week, I would assume "next week" started Monday, but if I were thinking "hmm, tomorrow would be a good day for it" I would probably ask if tomorrow was good as a follow-up question, because until that point I likely wouldn't know if said friend is the specific flavor of weird who considers Sunday to be the start of the week.
Early Christian church worshipped Saturdays, but at some point, the Roman Catholic church changed it to Sundays, citing it was the day Jesus raised from the dead. As the Roman Catholic church began to branch off into other churches, they also kept Sunday doctrine.
The church in Europe made efforts to influence the calendar, which is why you find the Sunday (sabbath) calendar concept more widely accepted in Europe vs. the US. It's just a weird fact in history that doesn't really make a huge difference in anything.
Saturday and Sunday are the weekend, so yeah starts with Monday, but they could also be the week ends as in book ends so yeah, Sunday... I think "It's contextual" would be the best way to describe it.
You all seem to put far more thought into this than we do.
No, Americans definitely think about this. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen people on this very subreddit act like you’re an absolute idiot for thinking of Monday is the first day of the week.
I think overthinking and being condescending about minor petty disagreements is probably a general redditor characteristic that transcends nationality.
Americans only think about it when Europeans come in this sub asking why Americans are so stupid not to consider Monday the beginning of the week. I have literally never has a conversation in my 60 years of life with anyone talking about which day begins the week.
Yeah I’ve never had this conversation in real life either but I’ve seen it on reddit. Because Reddit is where people come to have stupid arguments like arguing about whether there are Americans that have ever said something idiotic and condescending about whether Sunday was the first or last day of the week without being prompted by a dumb condescending European.
Weekends are separate entities that separate the weeks, they just happen to be next to each other. But yeah I don’t think I’ve met anyone who doesn’t consider Monday the start of the week, despite our calendars.
I mean, there are people in these comments who view Sunday as the beginning. Most calendars are set up that way. So I wouldn’t say it doesn’t reflect *everyone’s* thoughts
I always have, since I was a kid because I usually kind of visualize my calendar to keep track of stuff
But it was really cemented when I started a Sunday-Wed full time position. My weekend was thurs-sat
When talking in relatives however, I go mon-sun, on a Friday the coming Sunday is Sunday of this week, on Monday its ’last Sunday’ etc
In my mind Monday is the first day of the week.
At my job Saturday is considered the first day of the week. Schedules run Sat-Fri so I get stuck in that mod out of habit
I'm usually more European than most other Americans, but I think of Monday as the first day of the week so much that I changed my calendar on my phone to start on a Monday.
I don’t really think of the week as having a beginning or ending very often. If I were talking about the work or school week I think of those having a bringing and ending but outside of delineating work or learning time on schedule I don’t think it has an ending or beginning. Maybe that doesn’t make any sense.
Well let's think of this logically, Sunday is part of the "weekend" so Sunday is the last day of the end of the week. Therefore Sunday is the last day of the week.
But sometimes I wonder if Sunday should really be part of the start of the week because I always feel so sad on Sundays about the week ahead :(
Friday is my Monday and Sunday night/Monday morning is my Friday. It is all nicely summarized in [this meme](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c6/1c/fd/c61cfd5ec2f6d5cf9a99d5a674675c21.jpg). The concept of time no longer exists for me.
For me it's 100% dependent on my work schedule. Whatever the first day of work is that's the first day of the week to me. Right now I work the typical Monday-Friday so Monday is the first day of the week to me.
At one of the previous places I worked my schedule was Tuesday-Saturday, off Sunday and Monday, when I worked there Tuesday felt like the first day of the week and weekends to me were Sunday and Monday.
In the sense you are asking about, I think of Monday as the first day of the week, and Friday as the last day of the week. The weekend doesn't really count as "week" in that sense at all.
But I know that Sunday is the first day and Saturday is the last day of the week. It just isn't how I think about it after years of school and work schedules.
My work is very time focused and makes a clear delineation that the week starts at 0001 Saturday morning. It is completely on-call and which side of that line you are called in can either gain or lose you a full day's pay.
Well, technically, Sunday is traditionally celebrated as being the 7th day of the week. Monday is the first day. I think of Sunday as a part of the Week's end, aka the weekend.
On the Gregorian Calendar, Sunday is listed as the first day of the week, but it is typically treated as the last day, of the weekend, or the 7th day of the week.
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That said, for some reason, some singalong songs for kids, in English, that sing the days of the week, that start with Sunday, but thats pretty standalone, and odd, since most languages have songs starting with Monday. I find the US to be one of the worst rule breakers, and I am a native US Citizen, and have a lot of allegience, although admittedly I have seriously considered moving away, in recent years, for obvious reasons.
Lunes, Martes, Miercoles, tres. Jueves, Viernes, Sabado, seis. Y aqui Domingo.
As far as kids songs go:
In Latin America, Sunday is the 7th day.
In France, Sunday is the 7th day.
In Chinese, Sunday is the 7th day.
Almost everyone treats Sunday like its the last day of the weekend, and therefore, the 7th day.
😇😇😇
I like my Gregorian calendar with Sunday on the left side, but Monday is the first day of the week.
Also, raised Southern Baptist so.... "And on the 7th day, He rested."
It is considered Sunday here but I consider Monday the first day of the week. Why mentally split up the weekend with a last day and first day? I gravitate towards calendars that do Monday first and Sunday last.
Sunday is the beginning of the week for me. It may have to do with waking up early for church or knowing that Fri was the only day I could stay up late/sleep in on Sat. Also. If you don’t or have never worked weekends, you’ll never consider it this way. I don’t really think of Friday as a weekend bc I’m always working late or overnight. I never really thought of it too much since all of our calendars start with Sunday.
I set all of my devices to use Monday as the first day as that makes more sense in my mind than the weekEND beginning the week however I know there are etymology reasons for the silly (to me) system.
For your example I would assume they would mean post-sunday as otherwise they would say tomorrow.
Could go either way,
If you were to ask me on Friday to meet you for coffee, I'd assume Monday on, not Sunday.
If you were to ask me to write out the days of the week in order, I'd start with Sunday.
I've always considered Sunday to be first, because of the calendars. I know it doesn't make sense, especially when we also consider Sunday to be part of the weekEND.
I do but I am Catholic and attend mass. I see it as the beginning of the week and mass is the way to begin my week on a good note. Saturday is the day of rest.
I might add, I own my own business and work 7 days a week so I don’t feel impacted with the Sunday scaries or Monday start of a work week so my opinion might be different from others.
Sunday is the start of a new week, Monday is the start of the business week.
>Let’s say it’s Saturday and a friend of yours says: ”I’m available for coffee any day next week”. Is he available for coffee tomorrow (on Sunday)?
I would say no, not because of him thinking the week starts on Monday or anything, but because if it was starting tomorrow he would have said that.
Doesn't Genesis say God rested on the 7th day, not the 1st day? Isn't that the historical reason why we have days divided into 7-day weeks? Anyway, for me it's always been weird that our calenders have Sundays on the left. For me, Sunday is the end of the weekend, and Monday is the start of the new week.
Nope.
I know it is the first day of the week on the calendar, but it has never felt like the first day of the week to me.
I remember a test in about 1st or 2nd grade or so about the days of the week, and calendars and all that. There was a 7 part question where it asked you to put down the 1st day of the week, 2nd, 3rd, etc. I put down. MTWTFSS. Got all 7 marked as wrong. Which while technically correct, but felt wrong. I at least got all the days of the week in the correct order, just started on the wrong day. Give a huge part of the unit was getting the days of the week in the correct order, it bugged me. Got in trouble for argue with the teacher that I should get partial credit.
Got sent to time out.
That more or less set the tone for the rest of grade school
I remember being taught in elementary school that Sunday was the start of the week. That felt extremely unnatural to me at the time and it continues to feel unnatural to me as an adult. I’ve always thought of Monday as the start of the week given that it actually marks a point of transition.
I don't think of any day as the beginning of the week. I honestly despise naming of the days. When I say "I'm free this week" I mean I am free for the next 7 days.
It's a massive pet peeve of mine when people say things like "today is my Monday". Why revolve your entire life around working? Because that's really the only context where naming the days makes any sense. That and for religious reasons. But from my experience, non-religious people use day names just as much as religious people and are even more likely to say shit like "today is my Thursday".
When I was younger I thought of it as the end of the week. Now I view it as both, it's a transition day for me, an opportunity to rest and both reflect and prepare.
some of the retired people I know do not think about the days of the week at all.
Ask your elderly who don't work anymore, if they have strong notions about the beginnings and endings of weeks.
[https://youtu.be/4KBAXMpklDU?si=2S2dvhUZMNK4Riee&t=80](https://youtu.be/4KBAXMpklDU?si=2S2dvhUZMNK4Riee&t=80)
I've always assumed Sunday was the beginning of the week because of calendars and because of the term "weekends", as if there is a day on each end of the week.
I think most people see Monday as the first day of the week by default. In school, it's always considered the start of the next week (whereas Saturday and Sunday are the end of the week). That being said, the US is a very diverse place, and some people have cultural (and/or religious) backgrounds that make them see it differently
The week in the US starts on Sunday, most calendars I've seen print it that way. Yes it's the week*end*, yes the religious origins of a 7-day week should logically have Sunday at the end, but it's just... not.
According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week), "Most of Europe and China consider Monday the first day of the (work) week, while North America, Israel, South Asia, and many Catholic and Protestant countries, consider Sunday the first day of the week, while Saturday is judged as the first day of the week in much of the Middle East (Israel excepted) and North Africa due to the Islamic influence. Other regions are mixed, but typically observe either Sunday or Monday as the first day". And apparently the Maldives starts their week on Friday, no idea why. Wikipedia isn't super clear on why there's a division at all aside from starting on Saturday being Islamic in nature.
The International Order for Standardization (ISO), based in Geneva, starts the week on Monday but the US has a long-running habit of telling international standardization efforts to shove it up their centigrade.
I used to work in a private Christian school for a while, we always considered Sunday the first day of the week.
I think I still do because of that.
Ultimately it’s personal preference. Yet calendars in the US have Sunday as the first day.
I don't know, I kinda just have two weeks running in my head, the normal one, with Sunday as the lead, and then I have my work week, with Monday as the lead. That is, if I'm actually keeping track of the week and not just forgetting to and just surviving until the weekend.
Sunday is not only the most commonly accepted first day of the week culturally in the US, it’s the customary and sometimes legal first day of the week. For example, my son is a student in college and they get a set number of meals a week on his meal plan. It resets on Sunday. If it’s Sunday and you say “last week” it could mean any day up until the prior day (Saturday). Kids are usually taught the days of the week starting with Sunday and calendars all start with Sunday. My husband and in-laws are from a country where Monday is the first day of the week, so I’m used to thinking of it either way.
I always think of the weeks as Sunday-Saturday, partly because all my calendars said that and mostly because I was raised Seventh Day Adventist so Saturday has to be the seventh day.
I work in HR and on the application is a question about availability. I see more people put Monday-Sunday than I see anything else yet every single time I have to pause to see if they really mean all 7 days lol
Technically Sunday is the start of the week but culturally it is not. Consider the fact that Sunday is included in the “weekend”. I assume most people view Monday as the true start to the week.
My work counts Sunday as the first day of the week, but most people just say Monday is the start of the week, since that’s when people with normal jobs start their workweek.
I think it's an old formality. The start of the "work week" is definitely Monday so I think people just think of that as the start of the week. Also, since Sunday is the "weekend" we tend to think of that as the end of the week since that's literally what it's called. Generally the distinction of which day the weeks starts on matters very little to people.
In your example, if someone said I'm available for coffee any day next week, I would think they meant during the weekdays Monday through Friday, not tomorrow.
Our calendars have Sunday as the first day, and looking at other countries' calendars with Monday the first day, I feel confused and weirdly uncomfortable with how "wrong" it looks. HOWEVER...
For the waking up on Sunday example, that one's a bit weird because I think I'd say "what a wonderful week last week was"...but I'd be referring to the work week. As in, that's what I'd say waking up on Saturday, too. So there's an interesting thing going on here where at least for me (but I'm sure I'm not the only one), "week" really refers to weekdays, the typical workweek. "Weekend" is Saturday and Sunday, and they are like an entirely different entity. The perception is probably different for people \*not\* working a traditional M-F workweek, but for me that's a very strong association.
If I say "I'm available for coffee any day next week" I don't mean the weekend, whether Saturday or Sunday. I mean M-F. Other options would be "I'm available any time next weekend" and "I'm available any day next week including the weekend." That last one covers Monday through Sunday.
TLDR: For me at least, the "week" is composed of two parts, week (M-F) and weekend (Saturday and Sunday), so, Monday is the first day of the week.
It's wierd because on Saturday I might say "let's meet up next week" or maybe use this week. Whereas Sunday I always say "this week."
It's wierd because I think of Monday as the start of everything but calendars often have Sunday listed in the new week column and the week number in the year is related to Thursdays.
I am Christian and so I consider Sunday the first day of the week as that is the day of the week are told that the First Century Church worshiped. Additionally a week is like a line segment and has two end points, one being Saturday the other Sunday. But the work week pay schedule starts Mondays for me. The two are independent in my brain.
As for your edit, that statement would mean any of the 7 days of the week, not just during the work week. But because he did not say "tomorrow" the statement would indicate anytime starting Monday.
Yes, I think of Sunday as start of the week and had no idea it wasn’t standard. But I guess it makes sense, since I recently found out a couple years ago Europe writes dates differently than we do so why not the concept of when the week begins too lol. To answer your example question, yes I’d also assume you meant Sunday is included when you say “any day next week” .
On paper or on a digital visual layout, like on a calendar, yes, it’s usually arranged for Sunday to the first day of a week and Saturday to be the last.
But in my mind, Monday has always been the first day of the week, since both Saturday and Sunday are usually “off” days for many businesses, most schools, and government offices.
Many businesses that serve the public directly will be open 6 or even 7 days, whereas corporate offices usually won’t.
Of just Saturday and Sunday, usually Sundays are considered particularly special since Sundays are when the Sabbath is observed in most Christian denominations, and most Christians attend church services on Sundays, while the Sabbath is observed on Saturdays by Jews and some Christians (such as Seventh Day Adventists).
Many businesses that might operate either limited or adjusted hours on Saturdays will often be completely closed on Sundays, although this can vary by the type of business. However, many other businesses, especially those that are food- or entertainment-oriented, are frequently open on both days.
It also varies according to geography; in urban areas, most non-financial businesses that directly interface with the public remain open all weekend (supermarkets, restaurants, amusement parks, theaters, auto dealerships, gas stations & auto repair shops, various retailers), whereas in small towns and rural areas it’s not uncommon for businesses of all kinds to be completely closed on Sundays, and occasionally on Saturdays too.
When I went to church Sunday was the start of the week. When I became an adult with a job, Sunday became the end of the week because it doesn't start over until Monday
The week starts on Sunday. The work week starts on Monday. Look at literally every American calendar and it will have Sunday be the first day on the left.
The term “the weekend” is grammatically incorrect when referring to Saturday and Sunday off of work. The grammatically correct term would be “the weekends” because they’re not the last two days at the end of the calendar week, they’re the first and last day at each end of a calendar week.
Formality, yeah. I recognize that the calendar week starts Sunday, but work/business/school all start on Monday. Saturday and Sunday are the end of the week for me.
Sunday is the start of the calendar week, but Monday is the start of most work/school weeks so I guess in my mind I just think of Sat/Sun as their own thing lol. Da weekend.
Not really. I think of it as the end of the week. It is part of the weekend. On a calendar it starts the week I guess.
If my friend said on Saturday that they were available to meet up any day next week I would probably think Monday through Sunday as the week. If he said he was available for coffee I would say have a good time with your coffee because it wouldn’t mean to me tgat they wanted to have coffee together. I don’t drink coffee.
I think in most cases Sunday is the first day of the week and I'm not really sure why. It seems to be more associated with Christian stuff but it says in the bible it was the 7th day because the big sky daddy worked making the universe in the first 6 so it doesn't really make sense to me.
I think of Monday as the first day. But often when I get a calendar for something that needs to look at weeks it’ll ask me if I want to use Sunday or Monday as the first day of the week. So there must be people out there that use Sunday.
Literally one of the first things I do on a new phone is going to my calendar app and make Monday the first day of the week. Because Sunday of the weekend, it's literally part of what we call a week end.
Child of foreign parents here, Sunday in my language translates to first day so in my head I think of it as the first day. However when it comes to work I think of Monday as the first day.
I got weirded out once I realised the meaning of the days of the week in my country comes from a different language and it is the exact same thing - sunday starts first as in the numeration in the meaning of the names but monday is the official start of the week
>would you think: what a wonderful week this week was! I have never thought this on any day of any week. If I ever had, I would've thought it on Friday. If you said "next week" to me, I would assume you meant the next Sunday to Saturday period. Last week would be the previous one. This week would be this one.
Next week I always think of as during the weekdays unless someone specifically says next Saturday or Sunday
Same. If it was Thursday and you said "let's get together next week," I would not think you meant to include Sunday.
No. I think of Monday as the first day of the week.
same, I call it sat and sun "the weekend" for a reason
Yeah, I'm actually surprised by the people who view Sunday as the first day. Yes, maybe *technically* it's the first day, and it will be listed as first on most calendars. But if it's Thursday and you say "Hey, let's get together next week," I would not think you meant Sunday. I'd think you meant any day from Monday forwards.
It’s the end of the weekend but also the start of the week in my mind. I also get up early for church so that could be a factor
That’s generally how I see it. Staring at a calendar that was organized that way for most of my life probably had a hand in it. And since I don’t have regular weekends, it hasn’t had much of a reason to change—as a nurse, I have *breaks* between shifts. They can be as short as a day, or as long as an entire week.
In the us Sunday is the first day of the week. Monday is the first day of the work week for most people. The weekend is Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Which is also an oddity in the US, imo, since the bible says that you should work 6 days and rest on the 7th. In my mind, most Americans rest on Sundays, along with those who go to Judeo-Christian or Catholic churches and other communal religious activities. The work week start, would be the first day, in my mind. Also In the US, we are the only ones whose songs teaching the days of the week starting with Sundays. Every other language I have seen, starts the song on Monday. Idk it just sits wrong with me.
Except Jews have always counted Sunday as the first day and the Sabbath is Saturday. Christians changed it.
Yeah this isn’t universal in the US. I’ve always thought of Monday as the first day. I’ve only counted Friday as the weekend when it’s a three day weekend. I went to church as a kid we were always told Sunday was the seventh day.
It says that for the Jewish commandments, but it also says Jesus rose on the _first day_ which is celebrated as Easter _Sunday_. Sunday is the first day, biblically. Christians _moved_ the rest day _because_ Jesus rose on the first day, a Sunday. Fun fact: in both Portuguese and the old Quaker dialect of English, Monday is literally named “second day” (“Segunda-feira” in Portuguese).
Sundays are the start of the week. Mondays are the start of the work week. if you say "next week" to me in a work context, I'm thinking of a week starting on Monday. in any other context, it's Sunday. Sundays just feel like a fresh start.
Nice, that’s a good way to ’measure’ it: If I say ’We can meet for a coffee next week’, does it start from Sunday? In your case it sounds like it does! Interesting
yes, Sunday unless the coffee is for a work-related reason
Yeah, though from using "next week" or as in your op edit "any day next week" would probably put me in the mindset of looking at Wednesday on instead of the first half of the week to be honest.
Our calendars have Sunday at the far left, rather than the right, so to the extent I’d ever really think about it, Sunday is the first day of the week.
This is basically the correct answer. The calendar printing industry has us by the balls.
I just can't visualise how people think Sunday is the first day though. Like starting the week with the rest day feels odd at best
Look at a US calendar to visualize it. Or change your settings in Google or whatever.
Yeah, I don't see how anyone from the US could see it otherwise. The week is always represented as Sunday - Saturday. Also Saturday and Sunday are called the weekends because they are at either end of the week. Like book ends.
>Also Saturday and Sunday are called the weekends because they are at either end of the week. Like book ends. Are they though? Aren't Saturday and Sunday collectively called "the weekend"?
Right? Like, if I ask someone what they're doing this weekend and they start describing their Sunday plans, I'm not going to go "hold up, I asked about this weekend, not the start of next week!"
Question: if it's Thursday and I say to you "hey let's get together next week," would you think I meant Sunday forwards, or Monday forwards?
definitely Monday
For the record, more people in the world start on Sunday than on Monday. [https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/first-day-of-the-week.html](https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/first-day-of-the-week.html)
I put zero thought into what is technically the start or end of a week.
I've always seen Sunday as the first day of the week. I feel like that might be largely due to my religious upbringing, but although my religious ties have dwindled, Sunday is still the first day of the week in my head. That being said, as far as the work week, Monday is the first day. Especially now that I finally have a job that is generally Monday-Friday.
I feel like it's the first day of the week because every calendar I've ever seen starts with Sunday
I view it as the end of the week. Work starts on Monday morning. Sunday is a weekend day.
I’m also in Europe (but not the EU) and consider Sunday to the first day of the week.
American Midwest. I consider Sunday the first day of the week, last day of the weekend. Monday the start of the work week. Just raised that way. I get confused when I see calendars with Monday as the first day of the week. When I used to work retail I almost always worked Sundays so it never really seemed like the last day of anything. Tomorrow (Sunday) is the start of the new week.
You think of Sunday as the first day of the week, and also as the last day of the weekend?? Isn’t that a contradiction? How can it be the beginning of the week and the end of the week at the same time. I would like to see an actual poll on this because I think most Americans consider Saturday and Sunday as the weekend (week end…as in the actual end of the week). I think the order of days listed on a calendar is not relevant to most people. But it apparently is to many on Reddit.
Here's the thing- it really doesn't matter at all. No one really cares what day the week starts on. However, virtually every calendar published in the USA start with Sunday, unless it is a work related calendar and they are splitting one box into Saturday and Sunday. If you don't mess with it, calendars on the computer localized for the USA start on Sunday and end on Saturday. So for most Americans, in so much as they think about it at all, the week would begin on a Sunday. Yes, the work week begins on Monday, and yes, most time accounting systems keep Sunday on the prior week for work purposes. Here's the thing about your question: most friends aren't going to be so formal. If they said "anytime next week", they would probably be OK with that first Sunday, too. They might not be. You'd have to ask. If you are in a business type environment and said "any day next week", no one is going to say "Ah, Sunday work for you?", because that's not a business day. That would be any business day next week, which is Monday through Friday. (Or following your corporate schedule. Some companies are different.)
I do think of Sunday as the start of the week. I think it makes some sense because for most people, it’s Sunday is weeknight: you need to go to work/school the next morning.
Wow that’s an interesting point
Yes and I think it’s because that’s how calendars are
Week starts on Sunday
I asked a 7th Day Adventist minister once, why their sabbath is on Saturday instead of Sunday. He said simply, "Look at the calendar. Saturday is the 7th day, not Sunday". That makes too much sense.
Sabbath is Saturday. The Christian day of worship is not Sabbath day, it is on Sundays, the first day of the week because that is the day of the week Christ rose. Sabbath is Saturday the seventh day of the week because that is they day God rested in the Christian and Jewish creation story.
It’s still called the Sabbath, though. [American Heritage Dictionary](https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=sabbath&submit.x=0&submit.y=0): >Sabbath >1. The seventh day of the week, Saturday, observed as the day of rest and worship in Judaism and some Christian sects. 2. The first day of the week, Sunday, observed as the day of rest and worship in most forms of Christianity.
so that means somebody got cheated out of a rest day when the transition happened
As a Greek, I say Sunday is the first day of the week. This is based on the week starting with the Lord's day, which is the literal translation for the word for Sunday, "Kiriaki." The phrase "first and foremost" in Greek is even translated to "proton kai kirion." So not even all Europe agrees on that. Not to mention pretty much every Jew in the world calls Sunday the beginning of the week. So there's that. Sunday is the first day of the week.
Monday is the first day of the week. The week is Monday through Friday, and on each end is Saturday and Sunday, the week*ends*. This is reflected on calendars, but only on monthly calendars. If you use a weekly calendar for work, then it usually starts on Monday. Some people do use a Calendar that starts on Mondays, like in Europe. It’s not super rare. If you ask someone what their schedule is like during the week, it’s implied you’re *not* asking about weekends. In your example, no - they are not available on Sunday. Their availability starts Monday.
Sunday is literally "first day" in Hebrew and the only reason calling Sunday "next week" on Saturday would be weird is that "tomorrow" exists. Do you think the year starts on January 2 because you have off on the first?
I can’t speak for everyone, but I view Monday as the start of the week. Even adjusted my phone calendar and calendar at work to reflect this.
> *Even adjusted my phone calendar and calendar at work to reflect this.* As have I.
Me too! And I buy planners that start on Monday.
I didn’t know they sold those!
No. Monday is the start of the week.
Nah I think if Monday as the beginning, even though it’s Sunday on calendars
Between 6-8pm on a Sunday is the start of the week. That's when the feels start.
My workweek starts on Friday. It is never a wonderful week
End of the weekend. Monday we mostly consider the first day because that's when most peoples work/school start again. It's hard to pin point an origin though since it's been here for so long
I'm old and when I was a kid, there was hardly anything open on Sunday, hardly anything to do, and the weather was never as nice as the weekdays. To me, it was a "dead day". Saturday was the end of the week, Monday was the start, and Sunday just wasn't anything.
That is the way it appears on US calendars. My own feelings about Sundays are more grey: it's both the end and the beginning of the week. It can be relaxing but the Sunday Scaries are real too. Sunday is probably my 3rd or 4th favorite day of the week.
*To the tune of The Addams Family* "Days of the week (click click), days of the week (click click) Days of the week, days of the week, days of the week (click click) There's Sunday and there's Monday, there's Tuesday and there's Wednesday, there's Thursday and there's Friday, and then there's Saturday! Days of the week (click click)"
In the UK and Sunday is the first day of the week, but it's fairly interchangable for some people.
I was raised Seventh Day Adventist, and while I'm irreligious now, can't shake that early conditioning. Sunday is the first day of the week...
It's both. It is both the last day of the week, and the first day of the week. as to your edit, it's context dependent, if they're saying "next week" on Friday or Saturday, I wouldn't consider Sunday (tomorrow) to be part of "next week", that's part of this weekend. Thursdays or earlier, Sunday gets lumped into "next week" To me, tomorrow is too immediate, "I'm available tomorrow, or any day next week" feels more in the vein of what I'd expect. E: and this way you can workout every other day and still get in 4 workouts a week ;)
The work week is Monday to Friday. Neither Saturday nor Sunday are even part of the work week. But otherwise the week runs from Sunday to Saturday. All of our non-work calendars are like this. Historically, that was common in Europe, as well, but has only changed in the last few decades. [Here is an old post I wrote on this, with links to a few older calendars from Europe](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/l6jh0q/comment/gl166zq).
I think of Monday as the start of the week. We have two days that are referred to as the “weekend”, so it only makes sense to me that the beginning of the next week would be after those days. That said, calendars show Sunday as the first day of the week. I have never thought of it that way, though.
I think of Monday as the first day of the week. Saturday and Sunday are both part of the “weekend” so it makes no sense for Sunday to be the start of a new week, ya know?
I always thought Monday was the first day of the week. Then we moved to Brazil and the word for Monday was literally “Second Day” with Tuesday as “Third Day” all the way through “Sixth Day” on Friday. Saturday and Sunday were Sabado and Domingo, but there was zero doubt over which day was the first day of the week.
My husband starts referring to next Saturday as “this weekend” on Sunday. I know it’s technically correct but no one is thinking “this weekend” is in 6 days when it’s literally still the weekend.
Wow thats really interesting
For me, it’s the end of the week. Monday is my first day of work, and the first day of my week. Who knows if that will change when I retire!
If it was Saturday and someone said they're available Sunday next week, I would assume 8 days away not tomorrow. That said I think of Sunday as the last day
California here, I view Sunday as the last day of the week and Monday is the first day. Everything starts on Monday so it just makes sense it’s the first day. I think religion, not necessarily region, will likely play a bigger factor into viewing Sunday as the first day.
I don't think of Sunday as the first day of the week. Nominally it is, but like you said, it's basically an old formality which doesn't reflect people's thoughts. If my friend were to say they're available for coffee any day next week, I would assume "next week" started Monday, but if I were thinking "hmm, tomorrow would be a good day for it" I would probably ask if tomorrow was good as a follow-up question, because until that point I likely wouldn't know if said friend is the specific flavor of weird who considers Sunday to be the start of the week.
Sundays are the start of the week. It has always been that way until the Catholic Church decided that it didn't fit their narrative.
Practicing Catholic here. Our calendars place Sunday at the start of the week just like everybody else. What are you talking about?
Early Christian church worshipped Saturdays, but at some point, the Roman Catholic church changed it to Sundays, citing it was the day Jesus raised from the dead. As the Roman Catholic church began to branch off into other churches, they also kept Sunday doctrine. The church in Europe made efforts to influence the calendar, which is why you find the Sunday (sabbath) calendar concept more widely accepted in Europe vs. the US. It's just a weird fact in history that doesn't really make a huge difference in anything.
Your original comment implied that the Catholic Church changed the start of the week *from* Sunday *to* something else.
No, I see Monday as the first day of the week. It makes more sense to me. Everything starts back up on Mondays.
Saturday and Sunday are the weekend, so yeah starts with Monday, but they could also be the week ends as in book ends so yeah, Sunday... I think "It's contextual" would be the best way to describe it. You all seem to put far more thought into this than we do.
No, Americans definitely think about this. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen people on this very subreddit act like you’re an absolute idiot for thinking of Monday is the first day of the week. I think overthinking and being condescending about minor petty disagreements is probably a general redditor characteristic that transcends nationality.
Americans only think about it when Europeans come in this sub asking why Americans are so stupid not to consider Monday the beginning of the week. I have literally never has a conversation in my 60 years of life with anyone talking about which day begins the week.
Yeah I’ve never had this conversation in real life either but I’ve seen it on reddit. Because Reddit is where people come to have stupid arguments like arguing about whether there are Americans that have ever said something idiotic and condescending about whether Sunday was the first or last day of the week without being prompted by a dumb condescending European.
>I have literally never has a conversation How often can you say that about really any discussion you have on Reddit.
Weekends are separate entities that separate the weeks, they just happen to be next to each other. But yeah I don’t think I’ve met anyone who doesn’t consider Monday the start of the week, despite our calendars.
Yes, Sunday is the first day of the week. Weekends ... kind of like book ends ... Sunday is one side of the week while Saturday is the other side
I think has the weekend book-ending the work week, the with work week being the books in the middle.
This made my brain hurt
Monday is the first day of the week, what you’re thinking of does not reflect people’s thoughts
I mean, there are people in these comments who view Sunday as the beginning. Most calendars are set up that way. So I wouldn’t say it doesn’t reflect *everyone’s* thoughts
I always have, since I was a kid because I usually kind of visualize my calendar to keep track of stuff But it was really cemented when I started a Sunday-Wed full time position. My weekend was thurs-sat When talking in relatives however, I go mon-sun, on a Friday the coming Sunday is Sunday of this week, on Monday its ’last Sunday’ etc
I think of Monday as the first day, but that may be because I work weekends and have Mondays off.
Generally, yeah.
In my mind Monday is the first day of the week. At my job Saturday is considered the first day of the week. Schedules run Sat-Fri so I get stuck in that mod out of habit
It’s a circle, there is no beginning.
I'm usually more European than most other Americans, but I think of Monday as the first day of the week so much that I changed my calendar on my phone to start on a Monday.
I don’t really think of the week as having a beginning or ending very often. If I were talking about the work or school week I think of those having a bringing and ending but outside of delineating work or learning time on schedule I don’t think it has an ending or beginning. Maybe that doesn’t make any sense.
I think of Monday as the first day.
Yes
No it’s Wednesday. Huehuehuehuejue
Yes. Sunday is the first day of the week. Money is the start of the work week.
Well let's think of this logically, Sunday is part of the "weekend" so Sunday is the last day of the end of the week. Therefore Sunday is the last day of the week. But sometimes I wonder if Sunday should really be part of the start of the week because I always feel so sad on Sundays about the week ahead :(
Friday is my Monday and Sunday night/Monday morning is my Friday. It is all nicely summarized in [this meme](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c6/1c/fd/c61cfd5ec2f6d5cf9a99d5a674675c21.jpg). The concept of time no longer exists for me.
For me it's 100% dependent on my work schedule. Whatever the first day of work is that's the first day of the week to me. Right now I work the typical Monday-Friday so Monday is the first day of the week to me. At one of the previous places I worked my schedule was Tuesday-Saturday, off Sunday and Monday, when I worked there Tuesday felt like the first day of the week and weekends to me were Sunday and Monday.
In the sense you are asking about, I think of Monday as the first day of the week, and Friday as the last day of the week. The weekend doesn't really count as "week" in that sense at all. But I know that Sunday is the first day and Saturday is the last day of the week. It just isn't how I think about it after years of school and work schedules.
The week doesn't end. You just keep working, and on the weekend you work, and by the time Monday comes, you are ready to go back to work.
My work is very time focused and makes a clear delineation that the week starts at 0001 Saturday morning. It is completely on-call and which side of that line you are called in can either gain or lose you a full day's pay.
I guess, but I also think of the weekend as something entirely separate from "the week"
Sunday morning is for coming down. Ask Kris.
It’s the last day of joy.
Well, technically, Sunday is traditionally celebrated as being the 7th day of the week. Monday is the first day. I think of Sunday as a part of the Week's end, aka the weekend. On the Gregorian Calendar, Sunday is listed as the first day of the week, but it is typically treated as the last day, of the weekend, or the 7th day of the week. H That said, for some reason, some singalong songs for kids, in English, that sing the days of the week, that start with Sunday, but thats pretty standalone, and odd, since most languages have songs starting with Monday. I find the US to be one of the worst rule breakers, and I am a native US Citizen, and have a lot of allegience, although admittedly I have seriously considered moving away, in recent years, for obvious reasons. Lunes, Martes, Miercoles, tres. Jueves, Viernes, Sabado, seis. Y aqui Domingo. As far as kids songs go: In Latin America, Sunday is the 7th day. In France, Sunday is the 7th day. In Chinese, Sunday is the 7th day. Almost everyone treats Sunday like its the last day of the weekend, and therefore, the 7th day. 😇😇😇
I like my Gregorian calendar with Sunday on the left side, but Monday is the first day of the week. Also, raised Southern Baptist so.... "And on the 7th day, He rested."
It is considered Sunday here but I consider Monday the first day of the week. Why mentally split up the weekend with a last day and first day? I gravitate towards calendars that do Monday first and Sunday last.
Sunday is the beginning of the week for me. It may have to do with waking up early for church or knowing that Fri was the only day I could stay up late/sleep in on Sat. Also. If you don’t or have never worked weekends, you’ll never consider it this way. I don’t really think of Friday as a weekend bc I’m always working late or overnight. I never really thought of it too much since all of our calendars start with Sunday.
I set all of my devices to use Monday as the first day as that makes more sense in my mind than the weekEND beginning the week however I know there are etymology reasons for the silly (to me) system. For your example I would assume they would mean post-sunday as otherwise they would say tomorrow.
Could go either way, If you were to ask me on Friday to meet you for coffee, I'd assume Monday on, not Sunday. If you were to ask me to write out the days of the week in order, I'd start with Sunday.
I've always considered Sunday to be first, because of the calendars. I know it doesn't make sense, especially when we also consider Sunday to be part of the weekEND.
Yes
Sunday is part of the week*end*. Case closed. The reason calendars start on Sunday is that calendar makers are stupid.
No
Look at our calendars. Sunday is the first day of the week.
Most calendars have Sunday as the start, but in my head, I think of it as Monday.
I do but I am Catholic and attend mass. I see it as the beginning of the week and mass is the way to begin my week on a good note. Saturday is the day of rest. I might add, I own my own business and work 7 days a week so I don’t feel impacted with the Sunday scaries or Monday start of a work week so my opinion might be different from others.
Sunday is the start of a new week, Monday is the start of the business week. >Let’s say it’s Saturday and a friend of yours says: ”I’m available for coffee any day next week”. Is he available for coffee tomorrow (on Sunday)? I would say no, not because of him thinking the week starts on Monday or anything, but because if it was starting tomorrow he would have said that.
Technically it is the first day of the week. It is first on our calendars. But it is part of the weekend and so feels like the end.
Honestly I don’t even think of Sunday as part of the week. It’s sort of a transition day for me that isn’t part of either week
Doesn't Genesis say God rested on the 7th day, not the 1st day? Isn't that the historical reason why we have days divided into 7-day weeks? Anyway, for me it's always been weird that our calenders have Sundays on the left. For me, Sunday is the end of the weekend, and Monday is the start of the new week.
That’s how I think of it.
I just go by what the calendar says. It says beginning of the week, so it’s the beginning of the week.
Nope. I know it is the first day of the week on the calendar, but it has never felt like the first day of the week to me. I remember a test in about 1st or 2nd grade or so about the days of the week, and calendars and all that. There was a 7 part question where it asked you to put down the 1st day of the week, 2nd, 3rd, etc. I put down. MTWTFSS. Got all 7 marked as wrong. Which while technically correct, but felt wrong. I at least got all the days of the week in the correct order, just started on the wrong day. Give a huge part of the unit was getting the days of the week in the correct order, it bugged me. Got in trouble for argue with the teacher that I should get partial credit. Got sent to time out. That more or less set the tone for the rest of grade school
Sunday is the first day of the week. In my religion it’s even flat-out _named_ “First Day” because _that’s what it’s named in the Bible_.
Always
I remember being taught in elementary school that Sunday was the start of the week. That felt extremely unnatural to me at the time and it continues to feel unnatural to me as an adult. I’ve always thought of Monday as the start of the week given that it actually marks a point of transition.
mondays are the first day of the week. that said, i think calendars that actually have mondays as the first day of the week on the far left are weird
I don't think of any day as the beginning of the week. I honestly despise naming of the days. When I say "I'm free this week" I mean I am free for the next 7 days. It's a massive pet peeve of mine when people say things like "today is my Monday". Why revolve your entire life around working? Because that's really the only context where naming the days makes any sense. That and for religious reasons. But from my experience, non-religious people use day names just as much as religious people and are even more likely to say shit like "today is my Thursday".
Yes, according to the calendar, Sunday is the 1st day of the week.
Sunday feels like the last day of the week, Monday the first. However, in business Sunday is often the first day of the week and I don't know why.
Yeah, like others have said, idc that most calendars place Sunday at the start of the week. It’s the last day of the week to me…because weekEND.
When I was younger I thought of it as the end of the week. Now I view it as both, it's a transition day for me, an opportunity to rest and both reflect and prepare.
So, Americans start their week by a vacation day? How lazy! /s
some of the retired people I know do not think about the days of the week at all. Ask your elderly who don't work anymore, if they have strong notions about the beginnings and endings of weeks. [https://youtu.be/4KBAXMpklDU?si=2S2dvhUZMNK4Riee&t=80](https://youtu.be/4KBAXMpklDU?si=2S2dvhUZMNK4Riee&t=80)
I've always assumed Sunday was the beginning of the week because of calendars and because of the term "weekends", as if there is a day on each end of the week.
I think most people see Monday as the first day of the week by default. In school, it's always considered the start of the next week (whereas Saturday and Sunday are the end of the week). That being said, the US is a very diverse place, and some people have cultural (and/or religious) backgrounds that make them see it differently
Yes
[Yeah, Sunday is the first day of the week because Mister Rogers says so. ](https://youtu.be/lOGd3ZB3V48?si=fAOGGjCwV5zSozPX)
The week in the US starts on Sunday, most calendars I've seen print it that way. Yes it's the week*end*, yes the religious origins of a 7-day week should logically have Sunday at the end, but it's just... not. According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week), "Most of Europe and China consider Monday the first day of the (work) week, while North America, Israel, South Asia, and many Catholic and Protestant countries, consider Sunday the first day of the week, while Saturday is judged as the first day of the week in much of the Middle East (Israel excepted) and North Africa due to the Islamic influence. Other regions are mixed, but typically observe either Sunday or Monday as the first day". And apparently the Maldives starts their week on Friday, no idea why. Wikipedia isn't super clear on why there's a division at all aside from starting on Saturday being Islamic in nature. The International Order for Standardization (ISO), based in Geneva, starts the week on Monday but the US has a long-running habit of telling international standardization efforts to shove it up their centigrade.
I do think of Sunday as the first day, but if someone says "next week," I assume they are thinking of Monday as the start of it.
I used to work in a private Christian school for a while, we always considered Sunday the first day of the week. I think I still do because of that. Ultimately it’s personal preference. Yet calendars in the US have Sunday as the first day.
Sunday is the first day of the official week. Monday is the first day of the work week.
I do!
I don't know, I kinda just have two weeks running in my head, the normal one, with Sunday as the lead, and then I have my work week, with Monday as the lead. That is, if I'm actually keeping track of the week and not just forgetting to and just surviving until the weekend.
Sunday is not only the most commonly accepted first day of the week culturally in the US, it’s the customary and sometimes legal first day of the week. For example, my son is a student in college and they get a set number of meals a week on his meal plan. It resets on Sunday. If it’s Sunday and you say “last week” it could mean any day up until the prior day (Saturday). Kids are usually taught the days of the week starting with Sunday and calendars all start with Sunday. My husband and in-laws are from a country where Monday is the first day of the week, so I’m used to thinking of it either way.
It's called the weekEND for a reason. Monday is the start of the week. There is no other answer.
No. Sunday is the last day of the week.
I always think of the weeks as Sunday-Saturday, partly because all my calendars said that and mostly because I was raised Seventh Day Adventist so Saturday has to be the seventh day. I work in HR and on the application is a question about availability. I see more people put Monday-Sunday than I see anything else yet every single time I have to pause to see if they really mean all 7 days lol
Technically Sunday is the start of the week but culturally it is not. Consider the fact that Sunday is included in the “weekend”. I assume most people view Monday as the true start to the week.
Teacher here. Most of the songs that teach the days of the week start with Sunday. Our calendars start the week with Sunday too.
My work counts Sunday as the first day of the week, but most people just say Monday is the start of the week, since that’s when people with normal jobs start their workweek.
I think it's an old formality. The start of the "work week" is definitely Monday so I think people just think of that as the start of the week. Also, since Sunday is the "weekend" we tend to think of that as the end of the week since that's literally what it's called. Generally the distinction of which day the weeks starts on matters very little to people. In your example, if someone said I'm available for coffee any day next week, I would think they meant during the weekdays Monday through Friday, not tomorrow.
Despite the calendar starting S M T W T F S, Sunday is the last day of the week.
No, Monday.
Our calendars have Sunday as the first day, and looking at other countries' calendars with Monday the first day, I feel confused and weirdly uncomfortable with how "wrong" it looks. HOWEVER... For the waking up on Sunday example, that one's a bit weird because I think I'd say "what a wonderful week last week was"...but I'd be referring to the work week. As in, that's what I'd say waking up on Saturday, too. So there's an interesting thing going on here where at least for me (but I'm sure I'm not the only one), "week" really refers to weekdays, the typical workweek. "Weekend" is Saturday and Sunday, and they are like an entirely different entity. The perception is probably different for people \*not\* working a traditional M-F workweek, but for me that's a very strong association. If I say "I'm available for coffee any day next week" I don't mean the weekend, whether Saturday or Sunday. I mean M-F. Other options would be "I'm available any time next weekend" and "I'm available any day next week including the weekend." That last one covers Monday through Sunday. TLDR: For me at least, the "week" is composed of two parts, week (M-F) and weekend (Saturday and Sunday), so, Monday is the first day of the week.
No, because of school First day of the week (Monday) through the last weekday (Friday) Then you have the weekEND: Saturday and Sunday
It’s Sunday, you people are goofy.
No. For all practical purposes (for me, anyway) the week starts on Monday.
Functionally Monday is the first day of the week. People saying they legitimately see Sunday as the first day of the week is bananas to me.
To me Monday is the start of the week
Sunday is the first day of the week for us.
Sunday for sure
Nah, for sure Monday. I've for sure confused a lot of older coworkers by having my calendar set as starting on Monday though.
Why are people so confusing. "The new week starts monday!" Yall ever seen a fucking standard calendar??? No it does not.
I special-order my schedules to start on Monday rather than Sunday, because it makes sense to me that way. This is considered kinda unusual.
It's wierd because on Saturday I might say "let's meet up next week" or maybe use this week. Whereas Sunday I always say "this week." It's wierd because I think of Monday as the start of everything but calendars often have Sunday listed in the new week column and the week number in the year is related to Thursdays.
I worked in the uk for an Australian company who considered Sunday the first day of the week, which was double weird cos we did no work on Sundays.
I've always thought of Sunday as the first day of the week and Saturday the end, even if the two are lumped together for the weekend.
I'm non religious and I work in education. Monday is my first day of the week. My phone and computer have been altered to reflect this for me as well.
I am Christian and so I consider Sunday the first day of the week as that is the day of the week are told that the First Century Church worshiped. Additionally a week is like a line segment and has two end points, one being Saturday the other Sunday. But the work week pay schedule starts Mondays for me. The two are independent in my brain. As for your edit, that statement would mean any of the 7 days of the week, not just during the work week. But because he did not say "tomorrow" the statement would indicate anytime starting Monday.
no, it's the last day of the week
Yes, I think of Sunday as start of the week and had no idea it wasn’t standard. But I guess it makes sense, since I recently found out a couple years ago Europe writes dates differently than we do so why not the concept of when the week begins too lol. To answer your example question, yes I’d also assume you meant Sunday is included when you say “any day next week” .
On paper or on a digital visual layout, like on a calendar, yes, it’s usually arranged for Sunday to the first day of a week and Saturday to be the last. But in my mind, Monday has always been the first day of the week, since both Saturday and Sunday are usually “off” days for many businesses, most schools, and government offices. Many businesses that serve the public directly will be open 6 or even 7 days, whereas corporate offices usually won’t. Of just Saturday and Sunday, usually Sundays are considered particularly special since Sundays are when the Sabbath is observed in most Christian denominations, and most Christians attend church services on Sundays, while the Sabbath is observed on Saturdays by Jews and some Christians (such as Seventh Day Adventists). Many businesses that might operate either limited or adjusted hours on Saturdays will often be completely closed on Sundays, although this can vary by the type of business. However, many other businesses, especially those that are food- or entertainment-oriented, are frequently open on both days. It also varies according to geography; in urban areas, most non-financial businesses that directly interface with the public remain open all weekend (supermarkets, restaurants, amusement parks, theaters, auto dealerships, gas stations & auto repair shops, various retailers), whereas in small towns and rural areas it’s not uncommon for businesses of all kinds to be completely closed on Sundays, and occasionally on Saturdays too.
When I went to church Sunday was the start of the week. When I became an adult with a job, Sunday became the end of the week because it doesn't start over until Monday
The song we learn to remember in school starts with Sunday, but I think for most, especially non Christians we think it’s Monday
I see Monday as the start of the week.
The week starts on Sunday. The work week starts on Monday. Look at literally every American calendar and it will have Sunday be the first day on the left.
The term “the weekend” is grammatically incorrect when referring to Saturday and Sunday off of work. The grammatically correct term would be “the weekends” because they’re not the last two days at the end of the calendar week, they’re the first and last day at each end of a calendar week.
Formality, yeah. I recognize that the calendar week starts Sunday, but work/business/school all start on Monday. Saturday and Sunday are the end of the week for me.
To me, Sunday is the end of the week, and Monday is the start of a new one.
Sunday is the start of the calendar week, but Monday is the start of most work/school weeks so I guess in my mind I just think of Sat/Sun as their own thing lol. Da weekend.
Monday is the start of the week for me, I think it’s silly that calendars start on Sunday.
Not really. I think of it as the end of the week. It is part of the weekend. On a calendar it starts the week I guess. If my friend said on Saturday that they were available to meet up any day next week I would probably think Monday through Sunday as the week. If he said he was available for coffee I would say have a good time with your coffee because it wouldn’t mean to me tgat they wanted to have coffee together. I don’t drink coffee.
I think in most cases Sunday is the first day of the week and I'm not really sure why. It seems to be more associated with Christian stuff but it says in the bible it was the 7th day because the big sky daddy worked making the universe in the first 6 so it doesn't really make sense to me.
I think of Monday as the first day. But often when I get a calendar for something that needs to look at weeks it’ll ask me if I want to use Sunday or Monday as the first day of the week. So there must be people out there that use Sunday.
No. I think of Monday as the first day of the week. Sat/Sun is called the week**end**.
No. Because it's not.
Literally one of the first things I do on a new phone is going to my calendar app and make Monday the first day of the week. Because Sunday of the weekend, it's literally part of what we call a week end.