Totally OT -- Calendars

It is probably related to most businesses starting their working week on a Monday, at least in the days when they still hung calendars on the wall.

Many businesses, especially continental, use ISO week numbers, which start on a Monday.

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IIRC, the Bible says that God worked for six days making the world, and on the seventh (the Sabbath Day, Sunday) He rested (and subsequently commanded everyone to do the same, and to keep it holy). The Bible doesn't say that He had a rest before doing His work. I guess that Sunday (the 'Lord's Day') became regarded as the first day of the week because of a misplaced respect for God, but it's pretty obvious that it should be the last day.

Bear in mind that the Old Testament is a Jewish scripture, and their holy day is Saturday.

In message snipped-for-privacy@jrenewsid.jretrading.com>, Joe snipped-for-privacy@jretrading.com writes

Obviously this is because God began first in the Holy Land, but waited until he got into the swing of things before starting the following day doing the six days of work required to create the world elsewhere.

According to William Blake, Jerusalem was built "in England's green and pleasant land." Mind, he was more than a bit barking, but the Holy Grail is supposed to be at Glastonbury so maybe he was right.......or on the funny cigarettes at the Festival.

But of course, Blake was only speaking figuratively in his rebellious poem. Despite the despoliation of the industrial revolution, England could again be transformed to be like Jerusalem, the Golden City (something like what the Brexiteers promised us).

A typical ArtStudent comment where "it's pretty obvious" = "There is no discernible reason whatsoever"...

The next thing you will be saying its that its obvious that a metre is the exact length of God's Penis....

She hasn't got one.

I never followed that. By that logic (as you suggest) Sunday would be day 7 not day 1.

Proves my point really

Well, it was an astronomer from Florence, Francesco Sizzi, who quoted Francis Bacon to 'prove'[1] that there could only be 7 planets - because there are 7 holes in the human head.