# Do you consider Sunday or Monday the beginning of the week? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 21, 2006, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-sunday-or-monday-the-beginning-of-the-week/381266 "2006-11-21T08:50:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-sunday-or-monday-the-beginning-of-the-week/381266/41 "2006-11-23T03:35:41Z")
Sunday. I have no clever reason to believe that, it’s just what I was taught. The first time I was ever aware of being proven wrong was in Kindergarten when I was on the wrong side of the “how many days are their in a week?” question. Five, of course, then the weekend. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-sunday-or-monday-the-beginning-of-the-week/381266/42 "2006-11-23T05:37:56Z")
Sunday. (Does anyone have a computer file with the Falk calendar on it? It is a manufacturing/scheduling calendar that follows the format YYWWD (year, week of the year, day of the week). On it, Monday through Saturday are days 1 through 6, however, I have worked with different operations that numbered Sunday either as Day 7 or as Day 0. And let me tell you that coordinating calendars when two divisions of the same company number Sunday differently is a chore.) ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-sunday-or-monday-the-beginning-of-the-week/381266/43 "2006-11-23T23:24:07Z")
In my corner of the retail world, our fiscal weeks are Sunday through Saturday. All goals are set this way. Last year my boss thought she got a good deal on a calendar to use for off requests. But then we realized it was one of those rare Monday first calendars, and it has driven us crazy all year. Only a few more weeks, and we can get back to a real calendar that matches the other three calendars we have to use. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-sunday-or-monday-the-beginning-of-the-week/381266/44 "2006-11-24T09:04:59Z")
I not only hate Monday-first calenders, I hate the _idea_ of Monday-first calenders. Sunday’s been the first day of the week for what? 6,000 years? And we change it now because _some_ people have a work schedule that lines up differently? Bah. Our culture is disposable enough without changing one of the oldest (minor) aspects of it for no good reason. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-sunday-or-monday-the-beginning-of-the-week/381266/45 "2006-11-24T09:36:57Z")
[QUOTE=Alan Smithee] I not only hate Monday-first calenders, I hate the _idea_ of Monday-first calenders. Sunday’s been the first day of the week for what? 6,000 years? And we change it now because _some_ people have a work schedule that lines up differently? Bah. Our culture is disposable enough without changing one of the oldest (minor) aspects of it for no good reason. [/QUOTE] This thread is the first time- ever- I’ve ever heard any otherwise sane person state that they consider Sunday the first day of the week. :eek: As as already been said, Monday is the first day of the week. Saturday and Sunday are the Weekend, and therefore not the start of the week. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-sunday-or-monday-the-beginning-of-the-week/381266/46 "2006-11-24T13:38:27Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] . . . any otherwise sane person. . . . [/QUOTE] Who, me? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-sunday-or-monday-the-beginning-of-the-week/381266/47 "2006-11-24T13:55:44Z")
To me, Sunday is the last day of the week, Monday the first. I can’t imagine thinking any other way, even with calendars that have Sunday first. I prefer Monday-first ones, especially since I tend to think of the weekend as a unit and Sunday-first calendars break them up. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-sunday-or-monday-the-beginning-of-the-week/381266/48 "2006-11-24T15:54:04Z")
Monday. I struggle to get any work done on a Sunday, even when I need to, but on Monday things tend to get going. So, even subconsciously I have Monday as the beginning of the week. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-sunday-or-monday-the-beginning-of-the-week/381266.md?page=2)