# I Pit Calendars That Run from Monday to Sunday **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 8, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199 "2008-12-08T02:59:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/61 "2008-12-08T17:21:55Z")
> [@shantih](#): > > I’ll see the OP’s pitting and raise it by another of my calendar pet peeves – here in Germany, a common layout is a wide picture over all the dates in the month in one line. What the _hell_ is the point of that? A hint for people who can’t remember that poem about ‘Thirty days hath September,’ etc? The weekend days are usually bolded, but so are holidays, so the effect is one confusing mishmosh that was created specifically to annoy the living crap out of me, personally. Oh, I’m glad you said that. I work for a German company, and the calendars they distribute are like that. I was quite baffled. Actually, I’m still baffled as to why anyone would bother to make a calendar with such a format, but at least I know that it’s not completely out of left field. As for me–I don’t even use a wall calendar for planning. My datebook is in a week-starts-on-Monday format, which I definitely prefer for that use. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/62 "2008-12-08T17:45:59Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > ISO? Isn’t that the outfit that belongs to the Godless Swiss? HEY now. Don’t fuck with my heritage. I’ll go all fondue on you. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/63 "2008-12-08T18:12:33Z")
I work in broadcasting, where the week runs Mon-Sun and the month ends on the last Sunday. 2009 starts on December 29, 2008. Mon-Sun calendars don’t bother me. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/64 "2008-12-08T18:16:14Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > [Knock yourself out.](http://www.google.com/products?q=%22Monday+through+Sunday%22+calendar&btnG=Search+Products&hl=en&show=dd) Ah, thank you for that! I of course have a Day Timer instead of a Day Runner, so I’ll have to buy all new but it will be worth it! ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/65 "2008-12-08T19:28:45Z")
I work in advertising and the broadcast calendar runs Monday through Sunday. It was hard to get used to at first but now I have trouble with Sun-Sat calenders. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/66 "2008-12-08T20:15:46Z")
> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > Wait. . . you’re complaining about a FREE calendar?!! > > I thought the OP was bad; this is beyond reason. 😛 Hey, I’m complaining in a thread that was already started; at least I didn’t start a thread over it (not that there’s anything wrong with that). 🙂 While we’re standardizing things, can we do away with DST (Daylight Savings Time)? The sun is going down at 2 in the afternoon here now (exaggerating, but not by much). ---
**Author:** ![\_Undecided\_Adrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/eada6e/32.png) [@\_Undecided\_Adrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Undecided_Adrian)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/67 "2008-12-08T22:12:33Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > While we’re standardizing things, can we do away with DST (Daylight Savings Time)? The sun is going down at 2 in the afternoon here now (exaggerating, but not by much). I’m all for it, but the trouble is that in that case you (and me) want **permanent** DST, since we have standard time now… Perhaps we should just switch to UTC worldwide and I can add that to my little list 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/68 "2008-12-08T22:45:24Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > There’s that separation of church and state thing again! I want to be able to buy a Monday thru Sunday calendar instead of having to create them on Excel. Go buy a Pokemon calendar - it’s layed out Mon-\>Sun. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/69 "2008-12-08T22:48:02Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I work in broadcasting, where the week runs Mon-Sun and the month ends on the last Sunday. 2009 starts on December 29, 2008. > .. Then why does TV Guide go from Sat-\>Fri? (Actually I haven’t bought one in years but when I did that’s how they were arranged.) ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/70 "2008-12-08T22:56:10Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > There’s only one way to solve this. > > Siam Sam, Martini Enfield, choose your weapons. I don’t think they’d ever get to fighting if you let them choose their weapons (Martini, anyway.) Incidentally, weeks _always_ start on Mondays in French (well, «lundi», but you get the point) – changing the week was one of the atheistic reforms of the French Revolution. ---
**Author:** ![\_Undecided\_Adrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/eada6e/32.png) [@\_Undecided\_Adrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Undecided_Adrian)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/71 "2008-12-08T23:01:09Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#): > > Then why does TV Guide go from Sat-\>Fri? (Actually I haven’t bought one in years but when I did that’s how they were arranged.) Incredible, it’s the same way here in Germany! And It’s not even ISO mandated! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/72 "2008-12-09T01:41:15Z")
> [@Roland\_Orzabal](#): > > If you ask me, Friday and Saturday constitute the actual weekend anyway, because those are the days on which you actually do weekend-ish things. Sunday is just a shitty little parcel of time where you can’t do anything because most everything is closed for no reason. You get up late – provided you didn’t have to stave off umpteen calls from people who’ve not yet realized that you are NOT FUCKING GOING TO CHURCH – but you can’t stay up late unless you want to be dead tired on Monday, so you end up just sitting around for a few hours watching football until you go to sleep again. > > Fuck Sunday. Worse than Monday, IMNSHO, because at least Monday gets you one step closer to Friday (which, if you’ll recall, is the first day of the real weekend). > > So, start the calendar on Sunday, and your week runs downhill all the way. EXACTLY. Well said. The weekend runs from 5pm Friday to bar-closing time late Saturday night, technically the wee hours of Sunday morning but Saturday night for all practical purposes. Sundays are for starting the week recovering. > [@featherlou](#): > > While we’re standardizing things, can we do away with DST (Daylight Savings Time)? The sun is going down at 2 in the afternoon here now (exaggerating, but not by much). God loves daylight-saving time. I’m almost certain it’s mentioned in the Bible. > [@Sigmagirl](#): > > HEY now. Don’t fuck with my heritage. I’ll go all fondue on you. Oh, it’s my heritage, too. My last name is Germanic, and my paternal ancestors hailed from around St. Gallen. I’ve met distant relatives there with the same name (minus a T that was stuck in to get Americans to pronounce the name correctly way back when), and my uncle at one time traced the family name back to an ancestor who was burgermeister of a small village called, I think, Teufen in the 17th century. So I know. There’s some residual paganism in me; I cannot pass a cuckoo clock without getting all spiritual. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/73 "2008-12-09T17:43:14Z")
> [@'\[Undecided](#): > > Adrian;10546359’]I’m all for it, but the trouble is that in that case you (and me) want **permanent** DST, since we have standard time now… > > Perhaps we should just switch to UTC worldwide and I can add that to my little list 😉 Either way - as long as the world picks a time and sticks with it. Clock switching makes the baby Jesus tired and cranky and have car crashes. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/74 "2008-12-10T00:42:09Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Clock switching makes the baby Jesus tired and cranky and have car crashes. Frankly I think that has more to do with him not being able to reach the steering wheel or the brake pedal with his widdle arms and legs than it does with DST. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/75 "2008-12-10T00:47:10Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#): > > Then why does TV Guide go from Sat-\>Fri? (Actually I haven’t bought one in years but when I did that’s how they were arranged.) Not a clue. Keep in mind, TV Guide is a magazine and may be on a different publishing schedule. We’ve had some clients who insist on a Sun-Sat rotation, which is a challenge when the broadcasting world works Mon-Sun. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/76 "2008-12-10T17:38:15Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Frankly I think that has more to do with him not being able to reach the steering wheel or the brake pedal with his widdle arms and legs than it does with DST. No, I’m pretty sure it’s the DST. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199/77 "2008-12-10T17:44:26Z")
Yeah the week starts on a Monday, and the weekend goes at the end (not the ends!). Don’t you plan to do things on the weekend - i.e. go away on Friday evening and come back on Sunday evening? You want those days together - not split across two pages/rows. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-calendars-that-run-from-monday-to-sunday/476199.md?page=3)