@futzle @static @Hyperlynx Yeah, agree. I have to say from years of experience, the US is strongly biased to Sunday as the start of the week, and US-designed interfaces & OSes always default to that. And it's always been insane to me (Australian).
I don't know anyone in Australia who thinks the week starts on a Sunday, although I do know people who maybe don't bother to change it from the US default.
@frogworth @futzle @static I've always grown up with Sunday being the first day of the week, though. And I'm in my 40s!
@Hyperlynx @futzle @static I believe you! But I've never encountered it before.
But I also just don't understand it. If Sunday's the start of the week, what's Monday? "Oh damn, it's Monday, that ol' second day of the week where I have to get up and go to work!"
How does the week end on Saturday, and then on Sunday the next week starts but it's still the weekend?
My brain just can't wrap itself around this conundrum!
@frogworth @Hyperlynx @futzle I must be partially in some alternate universe.
Printed calendars here in Australia have almost always had Sunday as the first* day of the week as long as I can remember, and still do. And I seem to recall computers did it too for many decades, too. It seems something happened in the last 20 years that meant there was a gradual change to show Monday as the first day.
This may be what was mentioned with EU and ISO rules. I have changed multiple services over the years, an unknown number of which may have been recognising a local locale. I am not in a position to easily check some of the big players, but I did just checked the calendar add-on to the email service I use (Fastmail) and it defaulted to Monday. There was not an option to set my locale, but I could change it to Sunday. And I have already mentioned having to change Outlook on a work PC.
Curiously, the calendar in my browser (Vivaldi) which I also do not use, uses Sunday as the start of the week. And does not have an option I can find to change it!
This is all quite confusing.
* First day of the week and first day of the _working_ week are separate things! Maybe it's an unusually early type of 0-based counting?
@static I also have fastmail (in the US) and it defaults to Sunday start here
This is all fascinating!
@frogworth @futzle @static @Hyperlynx I live in the US and digital calendars usually start the week on Sunday, but I always change it to Monday if I can. This is especially useful when a calendar gives a week view; I want to see the adjacent Saturday and Sunday together in the same week.