Comment on Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”?

• rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, thanks. I don’t know how to get this into my brain. For me it’d just make as much sense that 12:01PM was 00:01. I always drift into looking at it like numbers in a succession… 10am, 11am, 12am, 1pm, … but that’s wrong. And the latin origin doesn’t help me either. Noon is neiter ‘before midday’ neither “post meridiem”. But it makes sense that the day starts at 00:00 with something AM and it keeps being AM for the fist half.

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  • VulKendov@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The seventh day that God rested on, the sabbath, is observed on Saturday in Jewish and some Christian traditions.

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    • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, you’re right. The week starts on ‘Yom Rishon’ and ends on ‘Yom Shabbat’. So starting your week on Sunday is correct in the Hebrew calendar.

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  • Oyster_Lust@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Many businesses in the U.S. now start their week on Thursday.

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    • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Okay. Haven’t heard of that… What’s the reasoning behind that?

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      • Oyster_Lust@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t actually know the reasoning behind it. We have a rather small company and in 2003 we outsourced our accounting to a nationwide firm that does accounting for a lot of huge worldwide franchises. Our work weeks went from Monday to Sunday, but this accounting firm said that all their clients had Thursday to Wednesday weeks, so we had to change to that system. We’ve since taken our accounting system back inhouse, but we’ve kept the Thursday through Wednesday weeks.

        I had never heard of that weekly system before 2003, but now I’ve realized that it’s quite popular. I think it’s more of a system used in franchise type companies rather than manufacturing or other type businesses.

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