![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the United States, the conventional calendar milestones are not weeks they are months. Nobody expects “the first week of 2016” to extend into 2015. Similarly, if somebody says, “It’ll be ready in the first week of 2016,” then if it is ready on December 27, 2015, it will be considered to have completed ahead of schedule. “It’ll be done in the last week of 2015” means “It’ll be done some time between December 27 and December 31 of 2015.” Nobody expects “the last week of 2015” to extend into 2016. This simple numbering scheme aligns with how people talk about weeks. I should emphasize that you will not see a calendar in the United States that looks like this, because nobody cares about week numbers. This numbering scheme means that most of the time, Week 1 is a partial week, and so is Week 53. The weeks are then numbered consecutively, with each subsequent week starting in on Sunday. Since the United States doesn’t use week numbers to any significant extent, the definitions are chosen to align with how people talk in casual conversation: “Week 1” is the first week of the year, and it begins on January 1. So go ahead, Europe, use your fancy week numbering schemes, with the rule of four or the rule of Thursday or the rule of St. Hence phrases like “long weekend”.Īnd then there are the religious-historical reasons why Saturday is the seventh day of the week, which in turn makes Sunday the first day of the week.īut I’m really here to talk about week numbers.īasically, in the United States, we don’t use them. The term “weekend” refers to any day that is not a day of work. The reality is that the term “end” in “weekend” doesn’t actually mean “end”. One interpretation of the word “end” is is “not the beginning” another is “extremity”. There’s the front end (Sunday) and the back end (Saturday). Seriously though, USA, why can’t you let a week that’s in two years at once just be one week? Also FirstDayOfWeek=Sunday? It’s called the week*end*, it comes at the *end* of the week.Īs I noted in my inline comment: Like a rope or stick or soccer pitch, a week has two ends. Continuing the chatter in my earlier discussion of why January 1 is being reported as the last week of the previous year.Ĭommenter Smithers notes a few things, which I will use as my springboard. ![]()
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