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The epi week (epidemiological week) is used to report healthcare statistics, as with COVID-19 cases: [59] The epidemiological week begins on Sunday and ends on Saturday. The first epidemiological week of the year ends on the first Saturday of January, provided that it falls at least four or more days into the month.
Between the first and third centuries CE, the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight-day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day week. The earliest evidence for this new system is a Pompeiian graffito referring to 6 February (ante diem viii idus Februarias) of the year 60 CE as dies solis ("Sunday"). [3]
The ISO 8601 definition for week 01 is the week with the first Thursday of the Gregorian year (i.e., of January) in it. The following definitions based on properties of this week are mutually equivalent, since the ISO week starts with Monday: It is the first week with a majority (4 or more) of its days in January.
In many European countries, calendars show Monday as the first day of the week, [11] which follows the ISO 8601 standard. In the Persian calendar, used in Iran and Afghanistan, Sunday is the second day of the week. However, it is called "number one" as counting starts from zero; the first day - Saturday - is denoted as day zero.
The year used in dates during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire was the consular year, which began on the day when consuls first entered office—probably 1 May before 222 BC, 15 March from 222 BC and 1 January from 153 BC. [44] The Julian calendar, which began in 45 BC, continued to use 1 January as the first day of the new year. Even ...
For Saturday, this ends up being equivalent to the week-date rule from ISO 8601 which ensures that the first week of the year contains four or more days (i.e. its majority) of that year, which includes the first Thursday and January 4. In this scenario, fiscal years would end on the following days: 2023 September 2; 2024 August 31; 2025 August 30
The result is that all dates from 1 Nisan through 29 (or 30) Cheshvan can each fall on one of four days of the week. Dates during Kislev can fall on any of six days of the week; during Tevet and Shevat, five days; and dates during Adar (or Adar I and II, in leap years) can each fall on one of four days of the week.
The composition or construction of the Adaduanan cycle appears to be based on an older six-day week. [1] The six-day week is referred to as Nnanson (literally seven-days) and reflects the lack of zero in the numbering systems; the last day and the first day are both included when counting the days of a week.