Talk:Sunday

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message: "This view was influenced by old economics when Monday was the first working day of the week; banks in general being closed on Saturday and Sunday." Monday was the first day of 6-day working cycle but not the week iself. The first day in Europe was and is the day of Sunday.--133.41.4.46 17:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Except the article clearly states the bible having no such reference to Sunday being the last day. It also states Saturday is.Xolver 22:07, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The last anonymus edit had a taste of "purge" (doing away with the mention of 1. day in the opening paragraph). I guess it is futile to fight about right or wrong. We have two different concepts which are differently used in different countries and I have tried in my edit to show their relationship. --Kipala 02:07, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Foolish statement about Sunday position in the week as the last 

message: I changed the explanation for "Sabbath (שבת)" originating from the Hebrew word "seven (שבע)". This is not correct even if it is a popular misunderstanding because of the similarity.--Kipala 21:19, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Understood, but what is it then? Derived from the word "sit" (ישב)? As in god sat down, rested? Xolver 16:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My Gesenius (dic for Old Hebrew) gives me שבת as a verb root with meanings of "stop, rest, sit"; though same dic leaves options for connecting this verbal root  with שבת="shabbat" or with some other semitic roots. My Hebrew grammar isn't good enough any more to explain better... Kipala 19:46, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it makes sense that it comes from the word sit, which in old hebrew probably meant rested too. Thus god created the world for 6 days and sat (rested) in the 7th.Xolver 04:06, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sabbat not "seven"

message: For something that silly can it have a source??  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.192.236.174 (talk) 18:03, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  dominoes can not be played on sunday in alabama 

message: "Any month beginning on a Sunday will contain a Friday the 13th."
Is the above statement taken from the introduction true?
Does anyone have a link to help verify this information?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.160.158.105 (talk) 00:11, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course, it’s true. All you have to do is add. If Sunday is the first, Monday will be the second, and in a couple of weeks, Friday will be the thirteenth. —Stephen (talk) 12:02, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange... 

message: The article states: "The Gregorian calendar repeats every 400 years, and no century starts on a Sunday."  Perhaps this sentence should be deleted, because it is only partly true and does not provide information directly relevant to the topic "Sunday."  While it is true that most groupings of 400 years have a number of days that is evenly divisible by seven, those groups of 400 years that include a year evenly divisible by 4,000 will not have a number of days evenly divisible by seven.  That is because years that are evenly divisible by 4,000 are an exception to the rule that years evenly divisible by 400 are leap years (even though years evenly divisible by 100 are otherwise not leap years).  Such rules are necessary because the orbital period of the Earth around the Sun is completely independent of the Earth's rotational period, so that there is no simple set of rules that can keep the calendar completely in sync with the Earth's orbit around the Sun.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bob99 (talk • contribs) 18:58, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the article is correct. The "exception to the rule" that you refer to is not part of the Gregorian calendar, but is a modification proposed by John Herschel, which has never been officially adopted. On the other hand, I agree with you that the sentence is not relevant to the topic, and appears to be meaningless trivia. In context it appears to be hinting that the lack of centuries beginning on Sunday is one of the motivations for the ISO standard. But there appears to be no evidence or reliable source suggesting this, so I am removing the sentence as well as the subsequent ones unless someone can provide a better reason why they should be in the article. David9550 (talk) 12:51, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical error on Gregorian calendar 

message: Thought Greek God Appllo was worshiped on "SunDay" day of the sun sun god Appollo? Didnt see mention in article on this!Thanks!Andreisme (talk) 00:58, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I clarified the Roman calendar's influence.  See :Sol Invictus.  Nobody has documented a Greek influence.  -- SEWilco (talk) 02:42, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ok Always thought the Greek God, Apollo was also worshiped on Sunday? 

message: Might I suggest that we mention the East Asian etymology of Sunday as we've done with some of the other days of the week? Monday we cite as being 月曜日（げつようび）(with the character 月 meaning "moon" or "month") in Japanese (though it cites some Chinese origin) and Sunday shares the distinction in Japan as being a day of the sun as well 日曜日.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.80.242.96 (talk) 06:10, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Comes from Chinese 星期日, literally "sun day". - M0rphzone (talk) 05:49, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology in Asian languages 

message: In current version of article there is following sentence:
"For many Christians it is the day set apart for worship of God, due to their belief in Christ's resurrection on a Sunday, according to the Gospels."
I always thought that Sunday originates from "fact" that God created world in six days and rest on the seventh one. People should not work on seventh day of week in order to worship God and his work.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.244.186.140 (talk) 08:22, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems you messed the Jews and the Christians up. - The issue is more complex, and there's no denying that a bit of the old Sabbath went into the, as it were, New Sabbath; but that's chiefly the old Jewish Sabbath you're speaking about.--131.159.76.164 (talk) 15:08, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sunday "role" in christianity 

message: Monday is by no way the first day in the hebrew calender but rather Sunday. This is also written in the linked page hebrew calendar.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.20.8.53 (talk) 22:06, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  First day in the Hebrew calender 

message: And how the Sunday defined or the first week defined in history is not explained.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.157.74.169 (talk) 08:47, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: According to Christians, God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th. So the 7th day is a day of rest. So the first Sunday was at the end of the first week. 194.207.86.26 (talk) 10:06, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Sunday in the history? 

message: Slavic languages, at least Polish, DO NOT implicitly number Monday as day number one. At least in Polish days were named with Sunday as the reference and Sunday is traditionally considered as the first day. So the Monday is the day after Sunday (niedziela -> poniedziałek), ... and czwartek (Thursday) is the 4th day after Sunday, not the 4th day (see http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazwy_dni_tygodnia).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:13A0:3010:0:0:0:0:1 (talk) 09:39, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Day names in Slavic languages