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This sounds like something I might do. I am sure I am a special kind of 'date dyslexic'. I have very little concept of when things are happening. I refuse to discuss dates without my diary in front of me, because I have no concept of whether the date they gave me is weeks away or months away. If you told me now that I had to get something done by mid-November, that feels like an age away, the fact that I am on holiday for the next week wouldn't cross my mind either. I recently got undone by a calendar which had Sunday at the start of the week, visually speaking...unlike my normal Outlook calendar. It gives me a lot of anxiety, because I have some things I have to do (like authorising payroll, or filing tax returns) on certain days.

Is this a real condition, or am I just disorganised?

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Huh me too. This is the first time someone else has described this which ive found. I like the analogy to dyslexia.

It amazes me when people say things like "oh in april two years ago such and such". To me thats about the same as saying 25.535E6 seconds ago. Mostly meaningless

I was just enjoying that our clocks have changed back to UTC for the winter. I do some activities where times are in UTC all year. How can I struggle with adding or removing an hour?

> It amazes me...

Exactly this!

> I recently got undone by a calendar which had Sunday at the start of the week,

This used to be quite common. It seems to have fallen out of favour in the last 30 or 40 years.

Do your calendars use a Min-Sun scheme? All of mine (US based) are Sun-Sat.

European calendars are typically Mon-Sun, UK/AUS/US/CA etc typically Sun-Sat. Just as the more-common-in-Europe 24 hour times have been seeping into UK for decades, perhaps you're seeing the Mon-Sun calendar doing the same thing?

AUS is also Mon - Sun

It is now. Australia is moving towards international norms (thank goodness -- let's hope that happens with climate policy as well!).

When I was a little kid Australia was not metric, still used pounds, shillings and sixpences, and yes, the calendar had Sunday first on the left.

Might be due to an ISO standard that has declared Monday to be the first day of the week. I strongly disagree: Sunday has always been the first day of the week, and Saturday the last. There was no good reason why this needed to be changed. The new standard didn't fix any problems with how weeks worked, and it breaks historical definitions (sabbath being the last day of the week, for example).

There's a children's song about the days of the week by a singer we like who starts his week on Monday, and my son dutifully corrects him every time he hears the song.

UK is most definitely Mon-Sun

It is now, but that was the phenomenon I was responding to. When I was a kid in the 60s it was most clearly sun-sat

AFAIK, traditional Arabic/Jewish week starts at Sunday Therefore: Ahad (Day 1) for Sunday. Sabbath/Sabt (Day 7) for Saturday.

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