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We use numbered weeks at work to keep track of projects, ie. different stages of design should be started on this date on week x and be ready by this date on week y, manufacturing on these weeks, delivery on this week etc., or keeping track on what week different members of team start and what week they end their summer vacations. It's pretty useful to see how many weeks something lasts with a glance but I always have to look up where those weeks fit on calendar. I don't think anyone actually remembers them straight away.
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Week number make sense if you think of them as a template for the year. For example in Denmark, there is in schools winter break, around week 7 or 8, the industrial holiday of week 29-30-31, and fall break at week 42. So the yearly planning is somewhat simplified
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Peter Falk posted:I want you to know that this was a great joke Glah posted:We use numbered weeks at work to keep track of projects, ie. different stages of design should be started on this date on week x and be ready by this date on week y, manufacturing on these weeks, delivery on this week etc., or keeping track on what week different members of team start and what week they end their summer vacations. It's pretty useful to see how many weeks something lasts with a glance but I always have to look up where those weeks fit on calendar. I don't think anyone actually remembers them straight away. Plus it completely ignores the actual limits of the year, with a 53rd week at the end of december/start of january in some years. Saladman posted:You're Dutch right?
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Week numbering is totally logical and I have no problems with next December thirtieth and thirty‐first being in the first week of 2025, while the hoi polloi dates of 1, 2, and 3 January 2027 will in fact be rounding out the fifty‐third week of 2026.
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Antigravitas posted:
This may be why the most profound philosophers are mostly German, but so are the most insane. A Buttery Pastry posted:Reported.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:It all comes down to what "weekend" means. Weekend means Brexit.
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It's not "weekend" it's "weak-end" because it's when I regenerate all my power.
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DTurtle posted:Indeed: Guess the legend. When people get paid? So weekly, monthly, uhhhh.... quarterly ?
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:When people get paid? So weekly, monthly, uhhhh.... quarterly ?
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Broadcast Calendar in the US uses week numbers and arbitrarily forces months to have fixed length weeks based on monday start of the week which results in astonishingly easy to remember things like the first day in the year of 2023 is December 26th
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Mar 26, 2024 08:55
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Another question: if you're American, and it's currently Sunday and you want to talk about something that's on Tuesday in two day, would you say it's "next week"? Excuse my disbelief, I just had to change calendar systems once and it shaked me to my very core.
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kiminewt posted:Another question: if you're American, and it's currently Sunday and you want to talk about something that's on Tuesday in two day, would you say it's "next week"? I, personally, would just say it's on Tuesday. If it's the Tuesday that's 10 days away I'd say "Tuesday after next." If I don't like someone I'd tell them "See You Next Tuesday."
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kiminewt posted:Another question: if you're American, and it's currently Sunday and you want to talk about something that's on Tuesday in two day, would you say it's "next week"? I’d say that’s “this Tuesday” or “this week”, with “next Tuesday” being nine days away and “next week” starting the upcoming Sunday.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:When people get paid? So weekly, monthly, uhhhh.... quarterly ?  I treated bi-weekly and semi-monthly as the same. And I left out daily. Also, lots of sites out there are mixing up semi-monthly and bi-monthly. DTurtle fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Reveilled posted: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 My wife worked at a company in Switzerland where the manager of her store did something like this, but her manager compared day to day comparisons with the year before. Like, January 15th 2014 would be compared with January 15th 2013. This was a women's clothing shop in downtown, which meant this comparison was absolutely stupid as gently caress and utterly pointless, because you'd always have one terrible comparison (last year's Saturday to this year's not-Saturday), one great comparison (this year's Saturday to last year's not-Saturday), one Sunday comparison when the shop was closed, and then 3 midweek day comparisons. Her shop manager was absolutely the dumbest woman, so I'm not sure if it was a corporate central thing or just the idiot store manager. The whole company - national in Switzerland with probably several dozen shops - went out of business not too long after that. Shocking, given how good they were at comparing previous years to current years. But my wife worked only on Saturdays since it was a student job, so she always got great performance compared to her other colleagues since her Saturdays always beat out last year's random not-Saturdays in daily comparisons.
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kiminewt posted:Another question: if you're American, and it's currently Sunday and you want to talk about something that's on Tuesday in two day, would you say it's "next week"? Sunday is the first day of the week in the US, so if it were Sunday and the thing is on Tuesday you’d say “this coming Tuesday” or “Tuesday of this week”. The comparison you want is if it’s Friday and a thing is happening on Sunday, would you say that it’s happening “next week” and there the answer is “it depends”
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Every article I've seen mentions seven people missing and believed to be in the water so RIP to them And the ship is apparently still on fire
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Guavanaut posted:Urlaub is a fun word. So is umwelt. And umgebung. The best part about Urlaub is that I don't have to go to work 
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kiminewt posted:Another question: if you're American, and it's currently Sunday and you want to talk about something that's on Tuesday in two day, would you say it's "next week"? No in America the week starts on Sunday so that’s the same week. BIG FLUFFY DOG fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Wouldnt you just say "blah blah blah on Tuesday blah blah blah" I dunno why this is so weird, but I have murica brains so i cant conceptualize. Saturday and Sunday are the two ends of the week, thus, they are the weekend.
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Ferdinand the Bull posted:Wouldnt you just say "blah blah blah on Tuesday blah blah blah"
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think of the week like a hamburger, where the weekends are the buns
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I think the better way of forming the Tuesday question would be: If it's currently Sunday and someone asks you "What are your plans for next week?" would you mention an event taking place on Tuesday in two days time? For me, Sunday's a kind of liminal space, I think if I was asked that question on Saturday I'd definitely mention the event on Tuesday; if I was asked that question on Monday I'd definitely understand the question to be about the week starting on the next Monday; if asked on Sunday I think I'd need context clues to tell if they were talking about the next 7 days or the week after that, and failing that I'd have to clarify. Reveilled fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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The Tuesday question sounds like a very niche solution to the Polish question in the 19th century. Palmerston: "Okay so both the Russian Empire and the German Empire get Poland, with ownership transferring on alternate weeks at midnight each Tuesday." Bismarck and Gorchakov, checking watches: "But whose midnight?"
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Tree Goat posted:think of the week like a hamburger, where the weekends are the buns
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My almanac don't want none unless you've Sat/Suns hon
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Saturday is the fun day with no obligations and anything can happen because all the obligations of the week are over. Sunday, even if you don't have religious obligations, is the day when you have to make sure you've gotten all the tasks done that need doing that weekend and be ready for the rest of the week ahead of you. You can't party hard or do anything late into the night because that'll gently caress up monday. 
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Sooners dot gif Also Florida_HVAC dot gif
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Nice Land Rush.
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Why do the states/counties around Oklahoma seem to get more populous, but it takes a few extra years for OK to attract more people?
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mmkay posted:Why do the states/counties around Oklahoma seem to get more populous, but it takes a few extra years for OK to attract more people? Reserved for Native American tribes until the 1900s
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YupGuavanaut posted:Sooners dot gif
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Saturday is the final day of the week because, like Abraham Heschel said, it's the climax of living. Anyone who wants to contest this must first produce documentation that they, too, marched alongside Rev. Dr. King from Selma to Montgomery.
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I think you can see at around the end of the 19th century, the steady westward sprawl kinda abates and recedes, even if places further west like Utah and Colorado are still filling out, and from then on a lot of the growth into empty areas gets really patchy and a lot of counties even decrease in density as people give up on country living in favor of urban areas. There's a bit of a rally around cities with the growth of suburbs, but at the end the map is looking a lot more speckly, and I'm sure that'd be even more pronounced if the map went past 2010.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think you can see at around the end of the 19th century, the steady westward sprawl kinda abates and recedes, even if places further west like Utah and Colorado are still filling out, and from then on a lot of the growth into empty areas gets really patchy and a lot of counties even decrease in density as people give up on country living in favor of urban areas. There's a bit of a rally around cities with the growth of suburbs, but at the end the map is looking a lot more speckly, and I'm sure that'd be even more pronounced if the map went past 2010. It'd be interesting to see that kind of map for Japan, or those countries in Eastern Europe where the entire countryside is now depopulated, particularly Bulgaria and Romania where everyone is now either in the few bigger cities, or they are >75 years old living in derelict, mostly abandoned villages in the countryside.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:But Sunday is the last day, a day or rest. Because god rested on that day. Why is it the first day?? WHYYYY???? How do you not line up Sunday with Let There Be Light? (Note: This is not a strongly-held position. I treat the standard week as running Sunday to Saturday for reasons of "I dunno, that's how all the calendars have it." This is probably a much more strongly-held position than appeals to Genesis.)
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Vavrek posted:How do you not line up Sunday with Let There Be Light? But the sun wasn't made until the fourth day.
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Re: daysoftheweek Under Jewish traditions, the day changes at sundown (the sun being created during the fourth day obviously night comes first). Saturday is also the Sabbath day, starting at sundown on Friday. Christian tradition says death on Friday, burial just before sundown, rests on Sabbath, resurrection on Sunday morning. So Christian celebration focuses on Sunday, moving the day of rest from the seventh day to the first. Muslim traditions agree the day of rest starts Friday, but Friday morning, making Saturday the first day. ISO, deciding everything is better off with a standard standardizes on Monday being the first day of the week, a position technically no religion agrees with.
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