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"Week Starts On" Default = Sunday

9 months ago · Sparkey
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Is it crazy, after 5000+ years of the week starting on Sunday, to have the default setting Monday?

I find it mildly irritating to have to remember to fix that setting. It almost seems like some odd developer had an agenda?

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Discussion
Mie
· 9 months ago

Why not Saturday? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week

Fabian Wolf
· 8 months ago

:D

zigpress
· 8 months ago

For me it's always started on Monday. That's why Saturday and Sunday are called the weekEND...

Sparkey
· 8 months ago

Wow, you learn something new everyday!! "Some years ago, the International Organisation for Standardisation specified Monday as the first day. " -London Telegraph.

I had no idea.

This map (http://chartsbin.com/view/41671) makes it look like half the world has to change the start day from the default!

I never did figure out if it was the first ISO 8601 in 1988 that changed it to Monday or when?