[Swizec]

Every European calendar I've ever seen starts the week on Monday.

[ars]

Yah, it's pretty much a European thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#/media/File:First_Day_of_...

[thaumasiotes]

That map has a glaring error -- China counts Monday as the first day of the week, not Sunday.

[skj]

According to the cousin comment by thaumasiotes, this is not true. It's just that Sunday comes "before" Monday, which is called day 1.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9674622)

[thaumasiotes]

I feel safe in claiming that I speak for thaumasiotes when I say I didn't mean it that way.

> it's true that Chinese generally consider Monday the beginning of the week

My cousin comment responds to the claim that you can tell China begins the week on Monday because its name is "week one", 星期一. That claim is problematic; China does begin the week on Monday, but the name doesn't prove so.

[skj]

> I feel safe in claiming that I speak for thaumasiotes when I say I didn't mean it that way.

oops!

[nicky0]

Boom. Great link. End of thread right there.

[tim333]

Google's places API has the days numbered sunday : 0 through to saturday : 6 so I guess the US system has moved in to API land.

[iamcreasy]

In Muslim countries it's predominantly Saturday. Correct me if I am wrong.

[kendallpark]

I was taught that Monday was the first day of the week in preschool here in the US. Looking back maybe it was some rogue teacher, but it always stuck.

Monday is the first day.