dayofweek enumeration

[Gary Brewer]

Why did Microsoft decide to start the DateTime.DayOfWeek enumeration with
Sunday and ending on Saturday. I thought that a week began on Monday rather
than Sunday? Or is this an age old unresolved question?

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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Why did Microsoft decide to start the DateTime.DayOfWeek enumeration with
Sunday and ending on Saturday. I thought that a week began on Monday rather
than Sunday? Or is this an age old unresolved question?

The day that a week begins on depends on culture and often even within
a culture you will get different versions. For instance, if I buy a
diary from most shops in the UK, I suspect that the weeks would start
on Mondays - that's more common for business uses. However, the diary
that I have as a trainee local preacher has Sunday as the first day of
the week, as that's the Christian view of things (at least in the UK).