Today one of the developers asked me what I thought the first day of the week was. I paused for a moment and then said Sunday. Apparently SQL databases need you to tell them whether you are going to count Sunday as day 1 of 7 or Monday as day 1 of 7.
It made me think of some heated discussions almost thirty years ago when I was a member of a fairly fundamentalist Christian group where the trend for calendars to show Monday as the first day of the week was seen as problematic. It was a question of whether visually representing the week as beginning on Monday focused on work and money rather than God and relationships (Sunday) . Even having moved away from that particular version of faith I still thing it is kind of an interesting question. At it’s simplest do we see the week beginning with a focus on recreation where our time is essentially our own or a focus on effort where typically our time is focused on other people’s needs.
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