In the SDMB user control panel, there’s an option that allows you to set the day on which the week begins in your environment, so the calendar is displayed correctly. It lets you choose any of the seven days of the week.
This makes me wonder: Is there actually, for every one of the seven days, a region in the world where this day is the regarded as the start of the week? I know the entire Sunday vs Monday debate, but I’ve never heard of any religion or cultural are where it’s, say, Thursday. Possibly the SDMB administrators simply included all days in their list for the sake of completeness.
Isn’t it going to be a vBulletin default, rather than an SDMB Admin decision?
I can’t think of a reason to be so comprehensive, other than it’s what good programmers do - when someone specifies “this thing here needs to be variable, but will only ever be either value A or value B”, you nod, smile, and give them a system where the thing can be any value, picked from a list that, at present, only contains A and B.
Because you know damn well that with some of these things, they’re going to come back with an exception next week, and anyway, it’s just as easy to implement a long list of choices as a short one.
In the case of vB, there might be some filter or setting somewhere that shows you things that happened ‘this week’ - I guess there are probably business contexts in which you might consider your week to run from Thursday to Wednesday, and would want the system to accommodate this, but I can’t think of a specific one.
It’s also possible that the list of ‘days of the week’ accessed by that function is a generic table used by lots of other functions too - where all seven days must be listed - and it’s just easier to show the whole list.
My weekend is Thursday and Friday. So my week starts on Saturday. I presume in Israel the weekend is Friday-Saturday, so their week would start on Sunday.
For that matter, I once worked a job where my days off were Wednesday and Thursday. Nothing cultural about it; it was just a place that did most of their business on the weekends, so employees were strongly encouraged to take their days off during the week.