Re: Why do different countries start the week on different days?


mirage wrote:
Raymond S. Wise wrote:

<snip>

The French tried a ten-day week after their revolution, and the Soviets
went through several reforms which involved weeks of other than seven
days, but the seven-day week returned in both cases.

<snip>

Hadn't heard that. Any pointers to articles on the soviet calendar
experimentation?


I knew about it from

Claus Tøndering's calendar faq at

http://www.tondering.dk/claus/calendar.html


[quote]

7.9. Do weeks of different lengths exist?
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If you define a "week" as a 7-day period, obviously the answer is no.
But if you define a "week" as a named interval that is greater than a
day and smaller than a month, the answer is yes.

The ancient Egyptians used a 10-day "week", as did the French
Revolutionary calendar (see section 8.1).

The Maya calendar uses a 13 and a 20-day "week" (see section 9.2).

The Soviet Union has used both a 5-day and a 6-day week. In 1929-30 the
USSR gradually introduced a 5-day week. Every worker had one day off
every week, but there was no fixed day of rest. On 1 September 1931
this was replaced by a 6-day week with a fixed day of rest, falling on
the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th, and 30th day of each month (1 March was used
instead of the 30th day of February, and the last day of months with 31
days was considered an extra working day outside the normal 6-day week
cycle). A return to the normal 7-day week was decreed on 26 June 1940.

[end quote]


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Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com

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