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On the plus side, every day of the month would always be the same day.

The 1st would always be a Sunday, the 25th would always be a Thursday, etc.

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People would hate having their birthdays always on the same day, imagine if it was always a Tuesday. Never a weekend.

Sure, celebrations can still be held on weekends, but it’s just not the same. And Fri 13th would die away.

I want to know what the bonus day gets called.

Just call it the bonus day. I'm sure the equivalent of all the leap year babies that get to call themselves bonus babies will thank us.

"Great leaders day" because those born that day are destined to rule.

Caturday?

Nah, the opposite is true for me. If I know for sure it's always a Tue, I can plan around it. I can schedule PTO for Mon and Tue, and have a nice long weekend, for example.

What's so frustrating to me is when I realize that, for example, public holiday falls on the weekend (I know this is solved by some countries by moving the holiday to Monday or Friday). Last year, 24th of Dec was a Saturday, pretty much the worst time for Christmas.

Where do you live where they don't move the holidays when they're on a weekend? I'd assumed that was the norm everywhere.

We don't move them in Brazil. I'm fairly sure they aren't moved in any other South American country either. Same for Portugal/Germany.

I guess we don't need to move them because we have plenty anyway, compared to the few ones the Americans have.

We move them in the UK, and get more holidays than the Americans.

Not GP, but The Netherlands do not move their holidays when they're on a weekend.

Absolutely nothing is preventing you from celebrating your birthday the way we do Holidays. My birthday isn't September 22, it's the third Saturday in September.

Heck it's not even weird to not bother with this redefinition and just have a party on a more convenient day.

In this calendar system, though, the third Saturday in September would always be the same day of the week, so it would keep you from celebrating in that format.

There's nothing preventing that, sure, but I don't think I'd really enjoy that. I want to celebrate my birthday on the anniversary of the day I was born, not on the nearest weekend day.

(My birthday falls on a national holiday where I live, though, so in practice I've never had to worry about school or work on my birthday.)

It would actually be Friday 13th every month, if start the month on a Sunday.

That's not a reason to prefer one calendar over another. Celebrating the anniversary of your birth is an arbitrary decision. Preferring it to fall on a weekend is odf. Anyone can celebrate anything at any time.

Yeah, people should just turn off their inate psychology more often.

Friday the 13th would always come on a Saturday, is all.

Surely everyone would follow the correct rule instead and have the week start on Mondays. :)

The Greek word for Monday literally means "second day". Tuesday is "third day", up to Thursday, "fifth day".

While I subscribe to the Monday week start, that’s a really interesting fact that I never would have expected

Thor, God of Thunder, would like to have a word with you.

Does he speak Greek? Because, if not, I imagine so would the moon, Tiu, Wodan, Freya, etc.

I thought he was from up north, where Greek is ... less likely.

I would think the same, making him fairly irrelevant as far as the fact I mentioned is concerned.

Similar for Georgian, Monday through to Thursday are named roughly "two-Sabbath" to "five-Sabbath", with Saturday being Sabbath of course. Not sure why those numbers, but I assumed it was because it was the number of days past Saturday?

Friday and Sunday get different names, unrelated to Sabbath as far as I can tell -- paraskevi and kvira.

Ahh Paraskevi is the Greek name as well! It means "preparation" or "manufacturing".

Oh nice, the more you know! Kvira probably refers to the same word meaning "week", but seems like there's theories it could derive from Greek mythology as well.

Lots of influence from Greek culture in Georgia for sure. For a fun fact, the Georgian for "Greece" is saberdzneti -- the land of the wise. Berdzeni itself means wise (as well as Greek), but I'm not certain if it's derived from an alternative historical name for the Greek.

Doesn't it mean "Moon's day"? From a quick google it seems it derives from the greek "Selēnēs hēmera", where "Selēnēs" is the gooddess of the moon and "Hēmera" is the personification of day(all of this is straight from google[1] btw, i know nothing about ethymology, only thing that sparked my interest is that in most romance languages the word for monday has a similar root to "moon")

[1]: https://www.etymonline.com/word/Monday

Edit: also wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday

He said the Greek (modern, not ancient) name -- Δευτέρα (Deftéra), which has nothing to do with moons, but means "second day". Obviously this only makes sense in a Christian context which starts the week on Sunday. Monday is "first day" (星期一) in Chinese, for example.

Christian context is a bit fuzzy here. On one hand, Monday is called the same in Hebrew (יום שני [yom sheni] = "second day"). On the other hand, Russian "вторник" [vtornik] ≈ "second" is Tuesday, same in other Slavic languages.

Judaism and Christianity both treat Sunday as the first day of the week, so that it is the same in Hebrew is unsurprising.

Wait, Wednesday and Thursday are “fourth day” and “fifth day” - not “W(O)din’s day” and “Thor’s day?”

No, the English names don't derive from the Greek names.

Sun Moon Tyr Woden Thor Frig and Saturn’s day

https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/professions/education/v...

Yeah, and? When did word etymology become a criteria on what we choose to do with words?

That doesn't really prove anything; I could invent a language where my word for Wednesday meant "first day". But that doesn't make it so. The language merely would follow my convention, not describe something inherently true about the numbering.

(FWIW, I agree that Monday is the second day, but mainly just because that's what I was raised to believe. Plus if Sunday is the end of the week, that means Saturday isn't a weekend anymore, which is nonsense.)

In my language, Monday, literally is "first day", Tuesday, is "second day". Also Wednesday and Thursday. It goes different from Friday.

Portuguese:

Segunda-feira (2) = Monday

Terça-feira (3) = Tuesday

Quarta-feira (4) = Wednesday

Quinta-feira (5) = Thursday

Sexta-feira (6) = Friday

Sábado = Saturday

Domingo = Sunday

I don't think I'll ever get this. Sunday and Saturday are at the (opposite) ends of the week. If Monday is the first day of the week and Sunday is the last, Saturday is no longer a weekend. It's a... near-the-weekend.

Not sure I follow? I've always considered both Saturday and Sunday to be the weekend. When someone asks me what I'm doing on the weekend, I'll think they are asking about Saturday and Sunday and in addition eve of Friday.

Saturday and Sunday are both the weekend.

So if they are weekEND so why some countries start week from Sunday (looking at you US of A) :)

The weekdays currently act as a weak parity check.. if I said "let's have a meeting on Tuesday 12/8" you'd double check because December 8th isn't a Tuesday.

The weak parity didn't prevent a friend from booking a rental car in April although we were going to be in the destination city in July.. the days of the week matched!

Always friday the 13th

Which would be boring compared to it only happening once in a proverbial blue moon.

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