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The weekdays and weekend are the complementary parts of the week devoted to labour and rest, respectively. The legal weekdays (British English), or workweek (American English), is the part of the seven-day week devoted to working. In most of the world, the workweek is from Monday to Friday and the weekend is Saturday and Sunday.
In Iran, Friday is the last day of the weekend, with Saturday as the first day of the working week. Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and Kuwait also followed this convention until they changed to a Friday–Saturday weekend on September 1, 2006, in Bahrain and the UAE, [2] and a year later in Kuwait. [3]
A long weekend is a weekend that is at least three days long (i.e. a three-day weekend), due to a public or unofficial holiday occurring on either the following Monday or the preceding Friday. Many countries also have four-day weekends , in which two days adjoining the weekend are holidays.
March 20 – April 23 (floating Friday using Computus) – State Holiday, Observed on Good Friday; November 23–29 (Friday after Thanksgiving) – State Holiday, formerly Robert E. Lee Day (observed in other states around January 19) [65] December 24 – Washington's Birthday observed. If December 24 is a Wednesday, then this holiday is ...
In 2022, the state’s tax-free weekend “begins Friday, August 5 and goes through Sunday, August 7.” Certain goods will be “exempt from the state’s 6% Sales Tax and any applicable local ...
If 1 January falls on a Friday, then it is part of Week 53 of the previous year (W53-5). If 1 January falls on a Saturday, then it is part of Week 53 of the previous year if that is a leap year (W53-6), and part of Week 52 otherwise (W52-6), i.e. if the previous year is a common year.
In the 1960s, police in Philadelphia started using the term to describe the hectic, overcrowded day that came as families rushed into the city ahead of the weekend's annual Army-Navy football game.
Friday the 13th will occur three times in the year, including in back-to-back months: Feb. 13 (you might not want to celebrate Valentine's Day a little early) March 13. Nov. 13.