# Why does the week start on sunday? **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [July 7, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799 "2004-07-07T21:10:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hans\_Kilian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/838e76/32.png) [@Hans\_Kilian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Hans_Kilian)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/1 "2004-07-07T21:10:42Z")
OK - being from Denmark where the convention is that weeks start on monday, I’ve always been puzzled by the fact that weeks in the US start on sunday. Does anyone know why? I’d think that the logical thing would be to start them on monday in christian countries. God didn’t start his week with a day of rest, he ended it with one. And so, monday should be the first day of the week and sunday the last day. Is it because it is based on the jewish convention that the day of rest is saturday? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/2 "2004-07-07T21:14:21Z")
My weeks start on friday :P. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/3 "2004-07-07T21:15:07Z")
well… not being christian or jewish I can’t comment on that, but, I’d guess that us American’s are either really dumb and were confused, OR, because we are simply lazy and want to take the day off in the beginning rather than waiting… or we wanted to split the week evenly rather than having it off balence ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/4 "2004-07-07T21:16:03Z")
Sunday - Begins with Sun. And the sun means life and beginning :). Maybe that’s why. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/5 "2004-07-07T21:24:50Z")
actually , saturday (sabbath day) was the 7th day in traditional jewish and islamic culture (and still is) Rome catholicized it in an effort to be anti-semetic in the “we’re new and improved judaism and now we’re different than them” distance kind of vein. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/6 "2004-07-07T21:26:45Z")
:to: somebody did some research… I like that we’re just lazy and want another day to rest before work 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/7 "2004-07-07T21:27:14Z")
Christian sabbath day is Sunday. Christians founded the United States. The week stats on Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/8 "2004-07-07T21:28:30Z")
That’s not true. Kirupians did ;). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/9 "2004-07-07T21:33:46Z")
For me the week starts on monday. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/10 "2004-07-07T21:35:21Z")
don’t think too much about it. They are americans. they measure in inch, weight in pounds, and get a cold when it’s 40°. Time has the format month-day-year, and the week starts at its last day. The only lifetime task of americans is to confuse europeans. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/11 "2004-07-07T21:41:18Z")
Nu uh McGiver, we’re right. We were here first!! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/12 "2004-07-07T21:45:44Z")
Week starts on Sunday? How so? I always thought the week started on monday, since thats the first day of business for a week. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/13 "2004-07-07T21:51:37Z")
Week starts on Sunday! End of story. You’re looking too much into it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/14 "2004-07-07T21:54:25Z")
> [@McGiver](#): > > don’t think too much about it. They are americans. > they measure in inch, weight in pounds, and get a cold when it’s 40°. > Time has the format month-day-year, and the week starts at its last day. > The only lifetime task of americans is to confuse europeans. 😉 Hear Hear :thumb: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/15 "2004-07-07T21:57:58Z")
Thank you wizard. – El - Aim! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/16 "2004-07-07T22:07:11Z")
here in obfuscatia, we start our day with a coffee break just like we start our week with a day off, just in case we don’t get a rest for another 6 days … now that’s forward thinking :thumb: …and the more euro’s we can rattle with it - the better 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/17 "2004-07-07T22:11:43Z")
My weeks start on Tuesday. I live in the US. Its actually very region specific. When I lived further north (in the same state) my day started on mondays, but now down here everything starts on Tuesdays. Just because the calendars have Sunday as the first day of the week, doesn’t mean that everyone follows that same tradition. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/18 "2004-07-07T22:30:36Z")
People should stop generalizing the US population so that they come across as all christians. The week probably starts on Sunday because the majority (not all) of the people who started printing calendars and such decided to make it sunday. Saturday and Sunday are both considered “week-end” days, so if you imagine a strip of tape or something, and loop them so that the two ends are sticking to eachother, then imagine that in a calendar setting, I think you’ll see what I’m saying. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-the-week-start-on-sunday/56799/19 "2004-07-07T22:55:10Z")
yeeaaaah, you tell 'em :bad: …FYI , check the "more than you could possibly ever want to know about calendars" page: [http://www.ecben.net/calendar.shtml](http://www.ecben.net/calendar.shtml) and for those who it _really_ bothers: [http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/calendar-reform.html#AA](http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/calendar-reform.html#AA)