What's a week?

[TheKeck]

A fortnight after this coming Saturday is definitely not next Tuesday!!

[KamaItachi]

Originally Posted by Reverant

Ohhh, yeah. That's one my wife and I never agreed on. "This Tuesday" meant the nearest Tuesday, while "next Tuesday" meant the proceeding one. For her, "next Tuesday" is the nearest Tuesday.

I would use "this [day] indicating the non passed day of any given week. Eg it it was Wednesday I wouldn't use 'this Tuesday' until the start of a new work week.

[Narradisall]

Next week means from next Monday to Sunday.

also, needs moar poll.

[fitbabits]

Seven days.

[evilgoodwin]

Originally Posted by fitbabits

Seven days.

[Narradisall]

Best. Response. Ever.

[LongStepMantis]

"You give me confidence in myself. I know we've only known each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days. But the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, but then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it."

That being said, my weeks start on Monday and end on the following Sunday. Which is even tougher since my work week is Saturday - Wednesday, with Thursday and Friday being my "weekends."

[boratika]

Originally Posted by Scull

This is not a "work week" but a standard Gregorian Calendar, the internationally accepted civic calendar that has been in use since 1582. Weeks begin on Sundays and end on Saturdays.

If by international, you mean USA, Canada, Mexico, then yes. If not, then you may wish to consult ISO 8601 more closely.

[muddi900]

Sometime in the 80's, before I was born, they switched the holiday to friday from sunday, to coincide with the actual Holy Day of Islam, with other weekend on Saturday. They switched back to sunday in the 90s, but to me, the day would always start on Sunday.

[johnperkins21]

Originally Posted by Reverant

Ohhh, yeah. That's one my wife and I never agreed on. "This Tuesday" meant the nearest Tuesday, while "next Tuesday" meant the proceeding one. For her, "next Tuesday" is the nearest Tuesday.

Irritates the hell out of my wife as I see it the same way your wife does. Next anything is the next occurrence of that thing. So today being Saturday, next any day of the week will be the one coming up. If I say this Friday, that should mean the Friday that happened in this current week, which was yesterday, as it is part of a collection of days in this current week which we are still in.

And to answer the original question, I would say it depends. If you say a week from now, that's seven days from now as there's no possessive group to start from. However, next week always begins on Sunday. In your real world example you are creating collections of weeks that begin on a Wednesday and in that particular instance, next week would begin on Wednesday. But this is a very specific circumstance in which you are collecting 84 days together and breaking them up into 12 equal parts.

[Dualonymous]

If i hear next week I take it as after the upcoming Sunday through Saturday.

[TheKeck]

Originally Posted by johnperkins21

Irritates the hell out of my wife as I see it the same way your wife does. Next anything is the next occurrence of that thing. So today being Saturday, next any day of the week will be the one coming up. If I say this Friday, that should mean the Friday that happened in this current week, which was yesterday, as it is part of a collection of days in this current week which we are still in.

And to answer the original question, I would say it depends. If you say a week from now, that's seven days from now as there's no possessive group to start from. However, next week always begins on Sunday. In your real world example you are creating collections of weeks that begin on a Wednesday and in that particular instance, next week would begin on Wednesday. But this is a very specific circumstance in which you are collecting 84 days together and breaking them up into 12 equal parts.

Weird. I'd never ever use the word "this" referring to a day in the past. Unless I used a past word like "this last Friday".

[johnperkins21]

If you say "this" it refers to a day within this current collection of days. "This Friday" is related to "this Saturday". It's not next Friday unless it's "this coming Friday". Seems logical to me.

[TheKeck]

Originally Posted by johnperkins21

If you say "this" it refers to a day within this current collection of days. "This Friday" is related to "this Saturday". It's not next Friday unless it's "this coming Friday". Seems logical to me.

Of course it seems logical to you. I think you're in the minority with that usage though.

[Scull]

Originally Posted by boratika

If by international, you mean USA, Canada, Mexico, then yes. If not, then you may wish to consult ISO 8601 more closely.

So might you.

ISO 8601 fixes a reference calendar date to the Gregorian calendar of 20 May 1875 as the date the Convention du Mètre (Metre Convention) was signed in Paris. However, ISO calendar dates before the Convention are still compatible with the Gregorian calendar all the way back to the official introduction of the Gregorian calendar on 1582-10-15. Earlier dates, in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, may be used by mutual agreement of the partners exchanging information. The standard states that every date must be consecutive, so usage of the Julian calendar would be contrary to the standard (because at the switchover date, the dates would not be consecutive).

[Hawkzombie]

What's a week?
A MISERABLE LITTLE PILE OF SECONDS!

Have at you!

[Shieldmaiden]

This week is anything in the current Monday-Sunday cycle. Next week is anything in the following cycle. This Thursday is always the following Thursday. Next Thursday is the Thursday after that, but I'll generally be pretty clear that I don't mean this Thursday to avoid confusion. "We're going for dinner not this Thursday, but next Thursday" or "We're going for dinner next week on Thursday."

[evilgoodwin]

Originally Posted by Hawkzombie

What's a week?
A MISERABLE LITTLE PILE OF SECONDS!

Have at you!

Your words are as empty as your soul. Mankind ill needs a timekeeper such as you!

[muddi900]

Originally Posted by Hawkzombie

What's a week?
A MISERABLE LITTLE PILE OF SECONDS!

Have at you!

What is to me , this quintessence of dust? Sunday delights me not, nor Saturday neither...