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.
HEY now. Don’t fuck with my heritage. I’ll go all fondue on you.
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.
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!
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.
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).
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 
Go buy a Pokemon calendar - it’s layed out Mon->Sun.
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.)
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.
Incredible, it’s the same way here in Germany! And It’s not even ISO mandated!
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.
God loves daylight-saving time. I’m almost certain it’s mentioned in the Bible.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No, I’m pretty sure it’s the DST. 
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.