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VictualSquid posted:So, apropos microstates. Here's a question. Every paper calendar I've ever seen in my life starts on Sunday. Is this also the case in the UK or Australia? Or these other countries? (My partner is Very Into Stationery and has been looking for a Monday-start calendar, unsuccessfully, for YEARS).
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Same but Connecticut and Long Island Same, but Ireland.
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Muscle Tracer posted:Here's a question. Every paper calendar I've ever seen in my life starts on Sunday. Is this also the case in the UK or Australia? Or these other countries? (My partner is Very Into Stationery and has been looking for a Monday-start calendar, unsuccessfully, for YEARS). I don't know about the UK and Australia, but paper calendars in Switzerland - and probably most of Europe - start on Monday. The calendar on my computer also starts on Monday. Like so:  is the calendar hanging on the wall in our kitchen. Although honestly I couldn't care less? If the "week started on Wednesday" it would change like... zero things in my entire life. The weekend changing matters, but first day of the week is something that's only relevant on calendars, and even then barely.
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Mar 25, 2024 20:42
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Saladman posted:I don't know about the UK and Australia, but paper calendars in Switzerland - and probably most of Europe - start on Monday. The calendar on my computer also starts on Monday.
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Guavanaut posted:Alomo Bitters honestly gave it a good shot to get drunk off this stuff and it's just impossible to swallow
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Mar 25, 2024 20:59
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A Buttery Pastry posted:It's relevant for anything where you plan by week. Week 20 not actually being an entire work week but instead three days, then two days after the weekend, would be a mess. Ehh, that's my life. We get paid on Friday, so the schedule starts on Saturday, but because it's a twenty four seven operation tons of people have their weekend in the middle of that. I have Tuesdays and Wednesdays off for example. Not quite sure how it works for people on swing shifts that would start on Friday evening and then continue into early Saturday morning.
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Muscle Tracer posted:Here's a question. Every paper calendar I've ever seen in my life starts on Sunday. Is this also the case in the UK or Australia? Or these other countries? (My partner is Very Into Stationery and has been looking for a Monday-start calendar, unsuccessfully, for YEARS). https://www.amazon.com/monday-start-calendar/s?k=monday+start+calendar I mean, you have to skip the sponsored ones, but it's not a years long quest
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Unreal_One posted:https://www.amazon.com/monday-start-calendar/s?k=monday+start+calendar Now imagine you are a stationery nerd, any of that visually pleasing to you?
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Mar 25, 2024 21:22
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Muscle Tracer posted:Now imagine you are a stationery nerd, any of that visually pleasing to you? Just a calendar or a planner? My friend uses this one from Japan. It starts on Mondays and the quality is really nice. It's kind of expensive but a stationary nerd is probably used to expensive paper. Amazon Link Edit: That company has calendar's listed on Amazon, but they all start on Sunday.
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Mar 25, 2024 21:35
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It all comes down to what "weekend" means. If "weekend" means "the end of the week" then the week should start on Monday and end on Sunday. If "weekend" means "the ends" of the week then Sunday and Saturday are perfectly positioned at both ends of the week, like both ends of a rope.
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Mar 25, 2024 21:36
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Yeah, I'm going with Garfield on this one. That cat doesn't work so clearly he doesn't dread first work day but has more of a metaphysical hatred about weeks start. Hence week's first day is Monday.
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Mar 25, 2024 21:48
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Swedes have this thing where they somehow instinctively know what week of the year it is always and say stuff like "Yeah we should meet for coffee, how are you in Week 22?"* And organize their schedule several weeks in advance. *Except you know på svenska
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A Buttery Pastry posted:It's relevant for anything where you plan by week. Week 20 not actually being an entire work week but instead three days, then two days after the weekend, would be a mess. Is that a thing some countries do? I can guess "week 20" must be something like early May, but I've literally never a single time heard someone use that terminology in Switzerland or the US. I don't even know how I'd figure out what week it currently is without counting from Jan 1st (or Googling). It's not numbered on either my digital or print calendar. E: I see the Japanese calendar someone linked above mentions the week numbers. Probably some calendars in Europe and North America have this on it, but I've never heard anyone refer to or schedule anything for like "week 20 of 2024", either professionally or in private life. Work and financial stuff does quarterly, so Q1 Q2 I hear, monthly common for both personal and professional life, daily for both also. Trimesters I get for property taxes and nothing else. Never gotten anything by week, and definitely not by week number. You're Dutch right? I guess it's something very culturally specific even within Europe. VVVV: Freaky. Do any other Europeans schedule stuff by week number? Saladman fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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Mar 25, 2024 22:25
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Yes, we do everything by the week. Outlook has week numbers in the calendar and settings for how to count the first week of the year (week including Jan 1, first full week of the year). I think it's very common across continental Europe
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Mar 25, 2024 22:31
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"What week is it now" is the single most common thing I google because tons of stuff is assigned like "to be ready by week 43"
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Saladman posted:Is that a thing some countries do? I can guess "week 20" must be something like early May, but I've literally never a single time heard someone use that terminology in Switzerland or the US. I don't even know how I'd figure out what week it currently is without counting from Jan 1st (or Googling). It's not numbered on either my digital or print calendar. So the last few posts gave me the idea for making this map after not finding anything online. I don't guarantee 100% accuracy. Guess the legend and the topic:  It's a multiple choice thingy, with the three choices corresponding to the colors red, green and blue. Choosing multiple is then the color mix of those primary colors (so yellow, purple, cyan). Also since white (all three) would be invisible, I instead made that dark grey. Light grey is no data or uncolorable by the site I created the map with. Hint: Red is monthly. DTurtle fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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Mar 25, 2024 22:37
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steinrokkan posted:Yes, we do everything by the week. Outlook has week numbers in the calendar and settings for how to count the first week of the year (week including Jan 1, first full week of the year). I think it's very common across continental Europe That explains why my old place used to do that, absolutely baffled me because I have never used outlook cos I was field, if all the office wankers were using it that might be why.
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Mar 25, 2024 22:43
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Weeks should be lettered, A-Z and then a-z Or maybe Week A, Week a, Week B, Week b, etc.
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I have never heard of this numbered week thing before and I am very glad I don't have to deal with it. I don't know how you'd figure out when week 23 or whatever is if there isn't a calendar marked that way. Count Sundays I guess? I wonder how such a bizarre system got started instead of just using the date.
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Mar 25, 2024 22:50
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Week January 1st, Week October 3rd. Also standardize to 10 day weeks, 3 weeks a month. Extra 5-6 days at the end of a year are holy days and not part of any week.
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You missed a word, but yes "week of March 24th" would be a normal thing to say.
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DTurtle posted:Professionally all the time. It makes it easy to schedule something in a certain week or two when it doesn't matter exactly when in that week or so. So you can simply say: "I have time in week 21 or 22" or "I'll be back in week 25" or "I'm on away in week 27, but after that is fine". Outlook can show the week numbers. What are you showing there with the colors? Or you just mean as a general concept for how to make maps with overlapping choice options? And on that thought, that would actually be an interesting map, what countries use weak numbers meaningfully. Might be hard to curate the data consistently. Switzerland I am 100% sure does not use week numbers in any part of the country for either personal or professional reasons, we just say like grand fromage mentions above. (Well, maybe like some industrial factories or whatever use it - but it’s very niche if it exists.)
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In the US military any officer would be used to using week numbers but I can't remember if they were based off of first week of the fiscal year or the normal first week of the year. But we also used metric for a lot of things and a different date format.
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Grand Fromage posted:I don't know how you'd figure out when week 23 or whatever is if there isn't a calendar marked that way. Count Sundays I guess? All calendars are marked with weeks in Finland and presumably you wouldn't ever be far from a calendar in a professional environment even before computers
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Ras Het posted:All calendars are marked with weeks in Finland and presumably you wouldn't ever be far from a calendar in a professional environment even before computers Depends on the work place. Week numbers are completely irrelevant to my work (Nurse), except our bosses use them always in their emails. Everyone had to check wtf is week 13-14, because there's scheduling changes then. Apparently it started just now. 
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kiminewt posted:Well, the more you know. Yes but nobody actually thinks of Sunday as the first day of the week, that’s just the weird calendar layout
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smh if you havent known when week 7 or week 42 were since early childhood (danish school vacations, tho i think some psychos use week 8)
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kiminewt posted:Well, the more you know. Su M T W T F Sa But yes. Sunday ending the week sounds weird to me. Glah posted:Yeah, I'm going with Garfield on this one. That cat doesn't work so clearly he doesn't dread first work day but has more of a metaphysical hatred about weeks start. Hence week's first day is Monday. Garfield hates Mondays because Jon’s not home and it makes Garfield sad but he’s too proud to admit it
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Snowy posted:Yes but nobody actually thinks of Sunday as the first day of the week, that’s just the weird calendar layout I think of Sunday as its own special day, bathed in an aura of holiness, separate from the temporal week.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Su M T W T F Sa Thursday was always R on my school calenders.
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Saladman posted:What are you showing there with the colors? Or you just mean as a general concept for how to make maps with overlapping choice options? Indeed: Guess the legend. Hint: Red is Monthly It just came out by accident, that there are (mostly) just three choices, which fit nicely with the three primary colors. DTurtle fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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Brawnfire posted:Thursday was always R on my school calenders. It was r in college for scheduling but everyone else it’s been Th I forgot it and Tuesday
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 Week numbers are on there, of course. However, I've never used them. Good to have them on your calendar when you have to look them up, because some insane person uses them instead of dates…
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FreudianSlippers posted:Swedes have this thing where they somehow instinctively know what week of the year it is always and say stuff like "Yeah we should meet for coffee, how are you in Week 22?"* And organize their schedule several weeks in advance. I can say that week numbers are extremely important in the Swedish military, and I wonder how much universal conscription has influenced its use in Swedish society.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Same but Connecticut and Long Island Connecticut could take Rhode island, but if it tried to go south it wouldn't work out since New York could destroy it. Queens and Brooklyn on their own have more people than the entire state.
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Sounds a bit complicated when you can just say "3rd week of March", "Second week of June" instead, but i guess you memorize those numbers from repeated use or calendars are there to remind you.
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distortion park posted:Probably why USA gets a sub 90 score on the teardrop above (along with NZ, wtf?) nz had a small town water contamination thing happen that infected 5000 people and killed 3, which set off a bunch of Dumb Political Bullshit and ultimately concluded "lol good luck with your water and sewerage in the future" plus, yeah, lotta rural and poor places, i guess
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Greece was definitely the first "wrong" one I noticed. I want you to know that this was a great joke
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Grand Fromage posted:I have never heard of this numbered week thing before and I am very glad I don't have to deal with it. I don't know how you'd figure out when week 23 or whatever is if there isn't a calendar marked that way. Count Sundays I guess? One of the reports at the company I work at uses week numbers, I think it's just so that year-to-year comparisons are standardised, like if you want to compare performance this week to performance last year, if this is week 13 you just pull up week 13 last year and week 13 the year before or week 13 five years ago and then you don't have the question of which week to use. For example this week is week commencing 25th March, so if you compare to 2021 is the correct week to compare in 2021 the week commencing the 21st (which contains the 25th March and is the fourth week in March like week commencing 25th March 2024) or the week commencing the 29th (which contains more weekdays that overlap the week commencing the 25th of March, and is also the last week in March like week commencing 25th March 2024 is).
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