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Why would you call it weekend and the start the week with half of it?!
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
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A rope has two ends, and so does a week
Sentences have both meanings and sound, yours have sound
I like fancy insults
Ok another US local units are retarded rant: it's called weekEND! why do you start your week at sunday and not monday! Sunday is part of the weekEND!
I'm English, not American but I see it as Saturday and Sunday are the two ends of the week. Like how a string has two ends. The weekend is both the start and the finishing end of the week.
since we are in a temporal context here i would argue that there is a clear distrinction between beginning and end here
So, when someone asks if you are free the next two weekends, you assume they're talking about the next Saturday (tail weekend) and the next Sunday (front weekend)?
No, the two ends of a week create a singular weekend.
Just like the two ends of a string create a singular string end.
I've never understood string physics.
If you're referring to an "end" of an object, it can refer to the extreme of a side of it. For example, aglets are at either end of a shoelace.
I'm refering to end in a temporal sense because we are talking about a time context here. There is a clear direction so going backwards brings you to the begin.
weekend = dayOfWeek > 5
Sunday is ~~1~~ 0 and Saturday is ~~7~~ 6. ~~You just made Friday part of the weekend~~ You forgot Sunday
On which planet? Monday is 1
I was off by one, but Sunday is 0 in javascript
Cron has clearly the superior numbering system, where sunday is both 0 and 7