Why does the calendar week in Europe start with monday and in the States with sunday?
2006-08-01 17:32:20 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I didn't even know that. So. Um.. Either way works. I guess USA just wanted to do everything differently from "the Motherland" to express that Independant spirit.
2006-08-01 17:36:19 · answer #1 · answered by jennifae 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A lot of calendars sold in the US now start the week on Monday as well. Originally, Saturday was considered a day of rest at the end of week, making Sunday the first day of the week, when everyone went back to work. The spread of Christianity, with the belief that Sunday was a holy day, lead to the two-day weekend now prevalent in most of the world, which in the West is on Saturday and Sunday. Over the last few centuries, as Sunday became as much of a day of rest as Saturday, people began to consider Monday the first day of the week, since that's when they went back to work.
2006-08-01 17:45:35 · answer #2 · answered by Tim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first day of the week in Europe has always been on a Monday and seeing that the calender was around before anyone one lived in the 'New World', I guess it was just the immigrants to america and Canada that wanted to distance themselves from their roots
2006-08-02 10:24:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
calander week on paper starts with sunday, however the average work week starts with monday and goes thru friday, but then there are lots of people who work very staggered schedules too. for some reason i guess they wanted to start the week with sunday despite the fact that biblically they called it the seventh day. kind of confusing isnt it, no real reasoning i suppose.
2006-08-01 17:38:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋