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Sure, I don't think anyone is disputing that.
But if you buy a printed calendar in one of those countries, what does it show as the first day of the week?
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I find it quite amazing the things that TP members get in such a 2 & 8 over. 
I work Monday - Friday these days (usually), so my week starts on a Monday.
Or should that be my working week? Sat & Sun are my days off so they are the weeks end.
However, years ago, in a different life I worked 6 on 2 off, so my week could start on any day of the week, and there was no such thing as a week end, just 2 rest days...
And the calender was only there to remind me how many days till rest days, where the calender actually started, was of no consequence as I said, as any day, could be the start of my working week.
I work Monday - Friday these days (usually), so my week starts on a Monday.
Or should that be my working week? Sat & Sun are my days off so they are the weeks end.
However, years ago, in a different life I worked 6 on 2 off, so my week could start on any day of the week, and there was no such thing as a week end, just 2 rest days...
And the calender was only there to remind me how many days till rest days, where the calender actually started, was of no consequence as I said, as any day, could be the start of my working week.
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It shows Saturday.
But few recognise the language.
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I find it quite amazing the things that TP members get in such a 2 & 8 over.
I work Monday - Friday these days (usually), so my week starts on a Monday.
Or should that be my working week? Sat & Sun are my days off so they are the weeks end.
However, years ago, in a different life I worked 6 on 2 off, so my week could start on any day of the week, and there was no such thing as a week end, just 2 rest days...
And the calender was only there to remind me how many days till rest days, where the calender actually started, was of no consequence as I said, as any day, could be the start of my working week.
It seems photographers can get into an argument about practically anything.
I had an American friend who once talked about his view of this. For him, the weekend started Friday Night and went through Saturday. On Sunday morning it was the first day of a new week, and it started with a day of rest to allow you to be prepared for the working week ahead.
Somewhere along the line that perspective has been lost (or never existed) in the UK: my Grandfather said that Sunday was a day of rest, and that one shouldn't buy stuff like sweets on the way home from church or watch TV, but rather spend the day quietly, but without positive reasoning as far as I am aware. I suspect this thinking came from a muddling of theology and traditions between old and new testaments, the sabbath being an old testament requirement for practicing Jews but without any similar requirement for new testament Christians, but applied by many none the less. I also find it mildly amusing the France, possibly the most avidly secular of all European countries, maintained Sunday as a day of rest in a sabbath style until about 20 years ago.
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The Jpeg v raw & the PC v MAC are long over due as wellIt seems photographers can get into an argument about practically anything.
I suspect you are right
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The world has agreed in ISO that Monday is the first day of the week. So that is the consensus. Kind of invalidates any other arguement.
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Not yet
1) this is TP
2) that was only post #47 there is a lot of mileage left in this yet
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"The world" hasn't.
Only those countries which are ISO compliant / participants.
So it doesn't invalidate anything for those countries which aren't.
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Nope
The Jpeg v raw & the PC v MAC are long over due as well
You left out 'protection' filters...
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My week starts on a Friday and ends on a Thursday
Yeah, course its stupid but that's HR for you isn't it
Monday is the first day of the week, I don't care what happens in NYork, Cairo or Kathmandu or in fact HR, they can all do what they want it ain't gonna change the 1st day of the week from being Monday...
Yeah, course its stupid but that's HR for you isn't it
Monday is the first day of the week, I don't care what happens in NYork, Cairo or Kathmandu or in fact HR, they can all do what they want it ain't gonna change the 1st day of the week from being Monday...
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Look, I told you in post 1 that Sunday is the first day of the week, why, because Miss Brown told me it was when I was 5 years old in 1956, it was in between the 2 times table and shoelace tying. End of.
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I've always looked on Saturday and Sunday being like book ends to the working week. Saturday gives you a chance to recover from the past working week and Sunday to prepare yourself for the next working week.
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