Feature Request: Calendar - Defining the Week Day Start

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This is a disconnect between cultural and standard views about time and date. The ISO standard (ISO-8601) states that weeks begin on Mondays. Things like week number are based on this.

Paradoxically TR get this (week number) wrong in their calendar: 1st Jan 2022 was on a Saturday, that means that week should have been week 53 of 2021 not week 1 of 2022 as week 1 is the first week with four or more days in it.

Edit: actually the USA has two week numbering systems :exploding_head: neither of which match the ISO model.

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As a lot, I wager that we American’s aren’t really into ISO. After all, the “I” stands for International. Come to think of it, we have issues with “Standards” and “Organization” as well.

I’m +1 on letting folks choose Sunday or Monday week start.

My request is that regardless of when it starts, that TR’s weekly annotations (plan phase and week #) land on that first day of the week and not on the first day in the week that has a TR workout.

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Actually, if TR is going to do the work to allow people to pick either Sunday or Monday, TR should do the full amount of work so that people could choose an arbitrary day (any day of the week) to use as Day 1.

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There’s a lot of horse trading goes on with standards and really the ISO just hoists various national standards that begin to be adopted by other nations into international ones. The only American one that I can think of are the old camera film speeds which used to be ASA100, etc. and then became ISO/ASA100.

Don’t know why but TR have made a bit of a mess of time and date - they’ve fixed on the American date format (MM-DD-YYYY) for example rather than allowing users to specify the one used locally (YYYY-MM-DD or DD-MM-YYYY). You should separate the underlying value from the format displayed to the user.

Self-selected start of week shouldn’t be a problem if the underlying framework is set up correctly. In theory you could display “weeks” of 7, 8 or whatever number of days, again it’s a separation of underlying data from how it’s displayed.

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+1 for this
I would like my weeks to start on Saturdays. The real problem for me is plan builder should set up training schedule accordingly.

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+1 for this.
I have used a Sunday to Saturday week for 30+ years. I find it hard to believe that this would be a difficult ask. I know you can choose on Garmin Connect. It just changes the math at the end of the week, which is basically what computers were created to do…

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+1 Anyone who works a bi-weekly schedule would greatly appreciate this.

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Still dreaming of this :slight_smile: