When does the weekend begin and end?

Archeron

Sitting here this morning with a mild hangover, I've already decided that today will be a non-starter, and in essence will blend into the long weekend, except I'm being paid for it. Woohoo!

Normally, I dont drink on a work night, but someone said to me yesterday that sure its the weekend anyway and so off I went to the off license. It seems some people believe that the weekend can begin as early as Thursday lunchtime, and some believe that Monday mornings dont really count either, as they're for recovering from Sundays.

For myself, I consider any time after 1pm on a friday to be officially the weekend, but always start afresh early on a monday morning.

So what parts of the week do you consider to be "kick up your feet and relax" time? Do you settle for the humdrum 2 day weekend, or do you doss a lot and drag it out to four, or possibly five days instead?

Akula

After lunch on a friday I find it almost impossible to get stuff done... Monday mornings I do find can be a bit of a drag... but its not really intentional.

Ponster

Akula wrote:

After lunch on a friday I find it almost impossible to get stuff done... Monday mornings I do find can be a bit of a drag... but its not really intentional.

There's a difference in not getting stuff done on a Friday afternoon and not being able to work on Friday due to drink.

connundrum

Thursday night till Tuesday mornings tbh Oh yes I might be in work, but it doesn't mean I'm actually doing any work!

While we're at it - when is the start of the week? I remember a debate on the radio once about it.. two guys were going hell for leather, one believing that Sunday is the beginning and the other obviously believing that Monday is the start.

I always thought that Monday was the 1st of 7 days but what do I know??

zilog_jones

Yeah, Monday is the beginning of the week - Sunday's the middle of the weekend FFS, so yanks with their wrong calendars can naff off with their Sundays.

gimmick

For me the weekend ends at around 6pm sunday, as thats when the Monday Morning blues kick in. Starts 5pm Friday.

fifth

Well yesterday and the day before was my weekend, if you work weekends.

Heyes

Starts at 5.30 today , and then mine ends on Monday the 14th at 8 when im back in work...

Ya gotta love weeks off woooooooooooooooooohoooooooooooooo

Plug

Kilkenny "piss" session starts thursday night, ends sunday night. The town becomes a small war at night.

People.Do we not have a bank holiday coming up?

Plug

Yeap;)

Spastafarian

Heyes wrote:

Starts at 5.30 today , and then mine ends on Monday the 14th at 8 when im back in work...

Ya gotta love weeks off woooooooooooooooooohoooooooooooooo

I got a week off too!! Finished at 4:30 today and back at 8:30 monday.

That's 1 and a half hours longer than you :P

Beetlebum

I always go for pints on a Thursday night and usually have dinner and wine/beer on a Sunday. Hate giving in to the Monday morning blues so I try to drag the weekend on as long as I can. Sometimes I go for a pint or two on a Wednesday aswell....

Heyes

Spastafarian wrote:

I got a week off too!! Finished at 4:30 today and back at 8:30 monday.

That's 1 and a half hours longer than you :P

Bothered Bothered Bothered and eh Bothered.. ....I think not

TomCo

The weekend starts when you get off work on Friday, it ends when you go to bed Sunday night/Monday morning.

There is no other answer, the rest of you must be high or something.

netwhizkid

My weekend started yesterday afternoon and will continue straight through until the early hours of Tuesday morning. Managed to shift several burds in one hour last night so it wasn't too bad :cool:

Heyes

TomCo wrote:

The weekend starts when you get off work on Friday, it ends when you go to bed Sunday night/Monday morning.

There is no other answer, the rest of you must be high or something.

Its called been in good form, you happy little thing :rolleyes:

Splinter

ugg im in work til 7 tonight and back in at 10 on tuesday morning...

Flukey

zilog_jones wrote:

Yeah, Monday is the beginning of the week - Sunday's the middle of the weekend FFS, so yanks with their wrong calendars can naff off with their Sundays.

Sorry Zilog_jones, but Sunday is the first day of the week. We include it as part of our weekend, and Monday is just the first day of the working week. But Sunday is the first day of the week. Many calendars put Monday at the start, because as they are commerical companies and Monday is the first day of the working week. So that is why a lot of calendars from banks and other businesses have Monday first, but Sunday is the first day of the week. Check a Bible and indeed Bill Gates, who thinks he is God, and you will find that Sunday is the first day of the week. Let me explain:

Sunday is the first day of the week. As you know, some people debate that point, even saying the evidence is in the Bible. They'll point to the Old Testament to back up their case. But before people go telling you that God rested on the seventh day, the sabbath, and that that is Sunday, tell them to think about it and even ask them "Have you ever read the Bible?"

According to the Bible, God created everything and rested on the seventh day. The Jewish Sabbath has always been, and still is, Saturday, the seventh day. Now, fast forward to the New Testament, specifically to the crucifixion. As we all know, Christ was crucified on Good Friday. In the Bible it is described as being "the day of preparation, the day before the Sabbath." He was taken down off the cross and laid in the tomb on Good Friday. Again according to the Bible, they did not want him to be still on the cross on the Sabbath. He lay in the tomb on Friday and on Saturday, it being the Sabbath. That is why he didn't rise that day: it was the day of rest. It would have been just as easy for him to rise on the Saturday, rather than waiting another day, but he didn't. It was on the morning of the third day, Sunday, described in the Gospels as being the first day of the week, that the women came to the tomb, to find Jesus had risen.

So from Genesis through to the gospels of the 4 Evangelists, Saturday was always the seventh day, the Sabbath. It still is the Jewish Sabbath, as I said. Christians later adopted Sunday as their Sabbath, in honour of the resurrection, but it is still the first day of the week, as the Bible says. It is why we have a two day weekend, with the Jewish and Christian days of rest, with the week ending right in the middle of it. Think also of the Sunday being named after the sun and think of the "let their be light" quote, drawing us back to the first day. It is also a principle item in our solar system, so takes precedence over the moon, after which Monday is named. So there we have it, settled once and for all, even according to the bible: Sunday is the first day of the week.


OK, now onto the Bill Gates part of the proof. Open up Microsoft Excel if you have it. Type today's date into a cell, say A1. Then in any other cell type:

=Weekday(A1)

You will get a number between 1 and 7, indicating the day of the week. For any Sunday date, you will get 1. It will now be Friday, so you will get 6. Assuming your PC is set with today's date you could also type:
=Weekday(today())
*Note that the today has two brackets immediately after it and another to pair off the one preceding it.

You will get the same result. If you don't know what day of the week you were born on, you can use the Weekday function to find out. Do the same thing. Type your date of birth into one cell and use the Weekday function with that cell reference and it will tell you. You can also type your date of birth, or any date, enclosed in double quotes, inside the Weekday function and get the day on which that date occured:

=Weekday("10/10/2000")

If you do know what day you were born on, you will find that your date of birth is numbered accordingly.

So the Jewish and Christian God are in line with Bill Gates. So the next time that someone tells you "Monday is the first day of the week and Sunday is the seventh, and it says so in the Bible", put them straight. To prove it to them, use your Bible, if you have one handy, or a spreadsheet!!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Ruu_Old

connundrum wrote:

Thursday night till Tuesday mornings tbh Oh yes I might be in work, but it doesn't mean I'm actually doing any work!

While we're at it - when is the start of the week? I remember a debate on the radio once about it.. two guys were going hell for leather, one believing that Sunday is the beginning and the other obviously believing that Monday is the start.

I always thought that Monday was the 1st of 7 days but what do I know??

Thursday night-Tuesday morning ftw.

ferdi

thursday evening to sunday afternoon

seamus

There's seems to be a lot of tension built up to this bank holiday weekend. At least 60% of this office have taken today off, and loads of people I know went out on the beer last night.

A normal weekend starts at 1 o'clock (PM) on a Friday and ends at 10 o'clock on Sunday night.

zilog_jones

Flukey wrote:

blah blah blah Bible blah blah Bill Gates

Anything to do with Microsoft is not going to convince me. Crontrab, however, counts days from 0-6 with 0 being Sunday, so I *suppose* I'll believe you.

However, for everyday use it's just easier to take Monday as the start of the week, unless you're not working or not in school/college, but then you are a jobless bum and days probably do not concern you.

Aard

Weekend = lunchtime Friday -> lunchtime Monday.

scojones

netwhizkid wrote:

Managed to shift several burds in one hour last night so it wasn't too bad :cool:

How much did they cost?

Weekends for me are Thursday to Monday.