Calendar misgivings

[trottigy]

Hey Ivy, that looks like a desk pad. Is it yours? All the Chinese Calendars I have seen (oddly enough the Vietnamese mostly use a Chinese calendar) start on Sunday.

Seeing that is a first for me.

[well]

Looks like desk pad? lol...

Anyway, it's mine! Now, let us see the vietnamese one, Jerry!

Edited February 28, 2015 by ivy

[well]

The interesting part, sunday is not day 7 in chinese, we have day 1 till day 6, but no day 7, we just call it another name. So moving sunday in the beginning of the week will be no problem at all for chinese calendar...

[trottigy]

There we are JWs starting yet another new trend in the Asian community.

The only Vietnamese Calendar you'll find that starts with day2:

Edited February 28, 2015 by trottigy

[peper-eliot]

I Just "bing" Chinese calendar and find some pictures of calendars who started on Monday 
 and the calendar of Ho Chi Minh City International school start on Monday

www.ishcmc.com/school-life/calendar.html

 

And, just for fun, did you know that, after the French revolution, we try a 10 days/week calendar ?

And Russian try, between 1929-31, a 5 days/week calendar... but a five day week is always used in Indonesia by the Javanese people...
 5 days.... I don't know if it's include the week-end

Edited February 28, 2015 by peper-eliot

[LoneWanderer]

What about the weirdness of Amharic calendar with both "Western dates" as well as the traditional Ethiopian calendar dates? Hence the Ge'ez numbers do not match with the Arabic numbers.

Even on memorial and convention invitations in Tigrinya and Amharic there are two different dates, ha.

[LoneWanderer]

Ah, wasn't able to attach two tablet screenshots in same message, sry.

Edit: So memorial to be held on March 25 and also the more known date of April 3 ;)

[trottigy]

I Just "bing" Chinese calendar and find some pictures of calendars who started on Monday 

 and the calendar of Ho Chi Minh City International school start on Monday

www.ishcmc.com/school-life/calendar.html

 

And, just for fun, did you know that, after the French revolution, we try a 10 days/week calendar ?

And Russian try, between 1929-31, a 5 days/week calendar... but a five day week is always used in Indonesia by the Javanese people...

 5 days.... I don't know if it's include the week-end

Cool an English school in Vietnam.

[MizPeg]

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I'm getting confused. This year our calendar is printed with Monday as the first day of the week rather than Sunday. Because of the placement of the days of the week on the calendar, it's throwing me off in a number of different ways.

 

For example, I was talking to a doctor's secretary this morning about getting an appointment. She said she could give me one on March 9^th. I looked at the calendar, and because of where the 9^th is placed during the week, it looked like it was a Sunday! But she reminded me, "Actually, the 9^th is a Monday."

 

No, I don't think I'm getting senile, but it's because of where the days are placed during the week on our calendar. I think last year we had a choice of which calendar we wanted to use, the usual Sunday-Saturday schedule, or the new Monday-Sunday week. But this year there's no choice. I'm wondering what else I can do to get used to this calendar, short of going to the bank and getting a "normal" one.

 

Does anyone else have this problem?

 

Eric, until you can get the situation in hand, you might try taking a high-lighter, such as is used to mark the answers in a magazine, and high light whichever day YOU want your calendar to start on.   

Edited March 1, 2015 by MizPeg

[Sheep]

The literature servant I was speaking to got the code in September, and when I asked him last night he said he couldn't find the code at all when he put in the latest order. Either the traditional style has since been discontinued, or the first code was an error and/or misreading.

 

Okay, thanks for the info. I'll drop into a pharmacy and get a "normal" calendar, or maybe follow one of the suggestions in this thread. (That's harder though. )

 

You mentioned in your post about a letter that said there would be two versions available. That doesn't sound like the branch to send a letter saying there would be a second calendar, and then discontinue it afterward. Or was that just a faulty recollection on your part?

[Stavro]

You mentioned in your post about a letter that said there would be two versions available.

 

The letter was read sometime in September with the rest of the yearly literature order announcements, so I'll check with the elders to see if I can get a copy, to figure out if this calendar even exists in the first place.

Edited March 1, 2015 by Stavro