# Calendar That Start On Mondays **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 5, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calendar-that-start-on-mondays/566519 "2011-01-05T19:09:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calendar-that-start-on-mondays/566519/21 "2011-01-07T21:29:12Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > Brit here and yes, I do find US-style calendars a little awkward. It just makes sense to keep the weekend days together. If you’re scanning through a calendar looking at what events are happening on upcoming weekends, with the US format you have to keep scanning from one side to the other. But I want to know if I worked the day before or if I’ll work the day after. I can’t stay out Sunday night, now can I? What I don’t get is why people go “But it’s the week_ends_. They should be at the end!” Well if the week starts on a Monday, then Saturday isn’t _bloody well at the end_, now is it? IS IT?! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calendar-that-start-on-mondays/566519/22 "2011-01-07T21:37:19Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Saturday ends the week because it is the Sabbath (as recognized by the people who actually have a Sabbath), and the Sabbath is on the seventh day. And Jesus came back to life on the first day of the week, according to all biblical accounts. Wait… Christians don’t have a Sabbath? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calendar-that-start-on-mondays/566519/23 "2011-01-07T22:56:48Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > What I don’t get is why people go “But it’s the week_ends_. They should be at the end!” Well if the week starts on a Monday, then Saturday isn’t _bloody well at the end_, now is it? The logic goes like this: the _weekend_ (singular: who says weekend **s**?) is a group of two days. This group of two days is at the end of the week, so should be placed together on the calendar at the right-hand-side (since we read left to right.) It is more common to have an activity that covers both days on the week-end (e.g. ski trip, camping). It’s easier to write across two adjacent columns than it is to write half on one column and half on the other column on the opposite side of the table, and also easier to see at a glance which activity covers two days. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calendar-that-start-on-mondays/566519/24 "2011-01-08T00:21:03Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Wait… Christians don’t have a Sabbath? Sort of. The Sabbath was originally Saturday. Then the Christianity thing started and there was a lot of arguing. Are Christians Jews first? Do they have to follow all the Old Testament rules? I suspect that for the first hundred years or so there were Christians keeping the Sabbath and Christians keeping the Sabbath while also having their own meetings on Sunday (in honor of the Resurrection) and Christians bagging the Sabbath and only meeting with other Christians on Sunday. Eventually there were enough Christians that some committee somewhere decided to meet only on Sunday and \*call \*it the Sabbath. Wiki says that the word derives from a word meaning ‘to cease’, so any regular day off could use the word. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calendar-that-start-on-mondays/566519/25 "2011-01-08T00:21:59Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Wait… Christians don’t have a Sabbath? Yes they do, and it’s on the seventh day 🙂 Not all Christians go to church on Sunday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calendar-that-start-on-mondays/566519.md?page=1)