Week | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 26/03/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week


00:01:40 1 Name
00:03:31 2 Definition and duration
00:03:55 3 Days of the week
00:04:08 4 History
00:07:05 4.1 Ancient Near East
00:09:36 4.2 Achaemenid period
00:13:26 4.3 Hellenistic and Roman era
00:15:57 4.4 Adoption in Asia
00:18:52 4.4.1 China
00:21:25 4.4.2 India
00:21:35 4.5 Arabia
00:22:51 4.6 Christian Europe
00:23:39 5 Week numbering
00:23:59 6 "Weeks" in other calendars
00:27:01 6.1 Pre-modern calendars
00:29:47 6.2 Modern calendar reforms
00:30:33 7 See also
00:33:09 8 Notes
00:36:55 9 References



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SUMMARY
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A week is a time unit equal to seven days. It is the standard time period used for cycles of rest days in most parts of the world, mostly alongside—although not strictly part of—the Gregorian calendar.
In many languages, the days of the week are named after classical planets or gods of a pantheon. In English, the names are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
ISO 8601 includes the ISO week date system, a numbering system for weeks within a given year – each week begins on a Monday and is associated with the year that contains that week's Thursday (so that if a year starts in a long weekend Friday–Sunday, week number one of the year will start after that). ISO 8601 assigns numbers to the days of the week, running from 1 to 7 for Monday through to Sunday.

The term "week" is sometimes expanded to refer to other time units comprising a few days, such as the nundinal cycle of the ancient Roman calendar, the "work week", or "school week" referring only to the days spent on those activities.