Someone please explain weeks ending on Saturday, starting on Sunday?

[Kyril0]

My hosting calendar has weeks ending Saturday, new week beginning on Sunday.

First - where in the real universe that we occupy does a week end and begin like that?  Who has weeks working like that? Name one - a nation, a profession, an island?  

I know it's some historic archaic holdover anomaly from victorian england or whatever - but why still keep it, it makes zero sense!

AirBNB - please change it to normal.

Or at least give us an option to switch the view.

Or does that option exist already, and I can't find it?

[Branka-and-Silvia0]

@Kyril0

you are right , it is more common that a week begins on Monday

[Emiel1]

@Kyril0

Let's have a look at this chart:

http://chartsbin.com/view/41671

And read some more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week

;>)

[Kyril0]

Can't say about Afghanistan.

But everyone you and I know, at least in the western world, starts their week on Monday morning, and ends their week Sunday night.  You know that.

I am in the United States - which the chart says starts the week on Sunday - no it doesn't.  False. Maybe as some holdover bureaucratic kink, on books in some dusty government standards record from 200 years ago - not in real life.
99% of the people and businesses here, and worldwide, start on Monday, end on Sunday.  You know that.

Which is what airBNB should reflect - how we really work, not some obscure anachronism.

[Sarah977]

@Kyril0    "Everyone ..... starts their week on Monday."  What you mean is that most businesses and employees start the week's work on Monday. But what about people who have Sunday work shifts? Even if they don't, what's wrong with thinking of Sunday as the beginning of the week? Even if you have a Mon-Fri. work week, seems nicer to think of Sunday as the first day of the week, starting the week with a laid back day of leisure, instead of back-to-the-grind.  You could always move to a country where the calendar starts on Monday.

Maybe I should start an irritated topic thread on why only 3 countries in the world don't use the metric system- Burma, Liberia, and the U.S. And why Americans don't seem to be able to ever understand metric measurements, or even try, when it's so dead easy.

[Sarah977]

@Kyril0  I don't understand what you're talking about. Every wall calendar I've ever had starts with Sunday.

[Kyril0]

Exactly - every calendar. Without good reason at all.
Do people in Mexico get up Sunday morning and go to work starting a new week?

No, they do on Monday.

Which is what airBNB should reflect - how we really work, not some obscure anachronism.

[Michael2413]

I think what you're trying to do is change the world.

I've always been taught that Sunday is the first day of the week and Saturday is the last.  I can't even say I've ever even seen a calendar that doesn't show Sunday first.  I'm looking at my Windows calendar right now.

You might as well rail against daylight savings time, why the US is not metric, why the English drive on the left, why some push-only doors have handles,  why do cars have speedometers that go way past their capabilities, why do we have 24 hours in a "day" and can't just add the extra seconds/minutes so we don't have to have leap year,  why do we even use 12 hour clocks...