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.
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.)
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield]
. . . any otherwise sane person. . . .
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Who, me? 
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.
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.