"day of the week begins by starting from an ‘anchor date’: a known pair (such as January 1, 1800 as a Wednesday), determining the number of days between the known day and the day that you are trying to determine, and using arithmetic modulo 7 to find a new numerical day of the week. One standard approach is to look up (or calculate, using a known rule) the value of the first day of the week of a given century, look up (or calculate, using a method of congruence) an adjustment for the month, calculate the number of leap years"
"Wednesday Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601 it is the third day of the week. In countries that use the ""Sunday-last"" convention and in the Jewish Hebrew calendar Wednesday is defined as the third day of the week. The name is derived from Old English ""Wōdnesdæg"" and Middle English ""Wednesdei"", ""day of Woden"", reflecting the pre-Christian religion practiced by the Anglo-Saxons, a variation of the Norse god Odin. In other languages, such as the French ""mercredi"" or Italian ""mercoledì"", the day's name is a calque of ""dies Mercurii"" ""day"
"Monday to Friday, with core working hours from 09:00 to 17:30. Retail stores are usually open until 21:00 every Thursday. Many grocery stores, especially in urban areas, are open until 21:00 or later, and some supermarkets and convenience stores may open around the clock. Shops are generally open all day Saturday and a shorter day Sunday (usually 10:00–12:00 to 17:00–19:00). In Italy the 40-hour rule applies: Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 18:00, with a one-hour break for lunch. Sunday is always a holiday; Saturday is seldom a work day at most companies and universities, but it is generally a regular"
"In the Maltese language, due to its Siculo-Arabic origin, Sunday is called ""Il-Ħadd"", a corruption of ""wieħed"" meaning ""one"". Monday is ""It-Tnejn"" meaning ""two"". Similarly Tuesday is ""It-Tlieta"" (three), Wednesday is ""L-Erbgħa"" (four) and Thursday is ""Il-Ħamis"" (five). In Armenian, Monday is (Yerkoushabti) literally meaning 2nd day of the week, Tuesday (Yerekshabti) 3rd day, Wednesday (Chorekshabti) 4th day, Thursday (Hingshabti) 5th day. Saturday is (Shabat) coming from the word Sabbath or Shabbath in Hebrew, and ""Kiraki"" coming from the word ""Krak"" meaning ""fire"" is Sunday, ""Krak"" describing the sun by fire. Apostle John also refers to the ""Lord's Day"" (in"
"""Germanic Mercury"". The Latin name dates to the late 2nd or early 3rd century. It is a calque of Greek (""heméra Hérmou""), a term first attested, together with the system of naming the seven weekdays after the seven classical planets, in the ""Anthologiarum"" by Vettius Valens (c. AD 170). The Latin name is reflected directly in the weekday name in most modern Romance languages: ""Mércuris"" (Sardinian), ""mercredi"" (French), ""mercoledì"" (Italian), ""miércoles"" (Spanish), ""miercuri"" (Romanian), ""dimecres"" (Catalan), ""Marcuri"" or ""Mercuri"" (Corsican). In Welsh it is Dydd Mercher, meaning Mercury's Day. The German name for the day, ""Mittwoch"" (literally: ""mid-week""), replaced the"
"of Mercury"". It has the most letters out of all the Gregorian calendar days. Wednesday is in the middle of the common Western five-day workweek that starts on Monday and finishes on Friday. The name Wednesday continues Middle English ""Wednesdei"". Old English still had ""wōdnesdæg"", which would be continued as ""*Wodnesday"" (but Old Frisian has an attested ""wednesdei""). By the early 13th century, the ""i""-mutated form was introduced unetymologically. The name is a calque of the Latin ""dies Mercurii"" ""day of Mercury"", reflecting the fact that the Germanic god Woden (Wodanaz or Odin) during the Roman era was interpreted as"
"it can be found also """". The first day of the week in Italy is Monday, but for the Church the first day is Sunday. The 24-hour notation is used in writing with a dot or a colon as a separator. Example: or . It is common also to use the comma as a separator (), even if this is generally considered wrong. The minutes are written with two digits; the hour numbers can be written with or without leading zero. In oral communication 12-hours are prominently used since 24-hours are considered very formal. In 12-hours, hour figures are always"
"In Vietnamese, the working days in the week are named as: ""Thứ Hai"" (second day), ""Thứ Ba"" (third day), ""Thứ Tư"" (fourth day), ""Thứ Năm"" (fifth day), ""Thứ Sáu"" (sixth day), ""Thứ Bảy"" (seventh day). Sunday is called ""Chủ Nhật"", a corrupted form of ""Chúa Nhật"" meaning ""Lord's Day"". Some colloquial text in the south of Vietnam and from the church may still use the old form to mean Sunday. In German, Wednesday is called ""Mittwoch"", literally ""mid-week"", implying that weeks run from Sunday to Saturday. In Italian, Sunday is called ""domenica"", which also means ""Lord's Day"" (from Latin ""Dies"
"Public holidays in Italy The following days are public holidays in Italy: In addition each city or town celebrates a public holiday on the occasion of the festival of the local patron saint: for example, Rome - 29 June (SS. Peter and Paul), Milan - 7 December (S. Ambrose). In South Tyrol, the holiday is instead on Whit Monday (which is also a public holiday in North Tyrol and the rest of German-speaking Europe). Public holidays and local saints' days are not transferred when they fall on a weekend. The number of working days given over to public holidays therefore"
"Shrove Monday Shrove Monday, sometimes known as Collopy Monday, Rose Monday, Merry Monday or Hall Monday, is a Christian observance falling on the Monday before Ash Wednesday every year. A part of the English traditional Shrovetide celebrations of the week before Lent, the Monday precedes Shrove Tuesday. As the Monday before Ash Wednesday, it is part of diverse Carnival celebrations which take place in many parts of the Christian world, from Greece, to Germany, to the Mardi Gras and Carnival of the Americas. The word ""shrove"" is the past tense of the English verb ""shrive"", which means to obtain absolution"
"terms of Norse origin for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, then later supplanted these with terms relating to church fasting practices. Albanian adopted the Latin terms for Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, adopted translations of the Latin terms for Sunday and Monday, and kept native terms for Thursday and Friday. Other languages adopted the week together with the Latin (Romance) names for the days of the week in the colonial period. Some constructed languages also adopted the Latin terminology. The Germanic peoples adapted the system introduced by the Romans by substituting the Germanic deities for the Roman ones (with the exception of"
"of the week in Arabic. Etymologically speaking, Swahili has two ""fifth"" days. The words for Saturday through Wednesday contain the Bantu-derived Swahili words for ""one"" through ""five"". The word for Thursday, ""Alhamisi"", is of Arabic origin and means ""the fifth"" (day). The word for Friday, ""Ijumaa"", is also Arabic and means (day of) ""gathering"" for the Friday noon prayers in Islam. In the Žejane dialect of Istro-Romanian, ""lur"" (Monday) and ""virer"" (Friday) follow the Latin convention, while ""utorek"" (Tuesday), ""sredu"" (Wednesday), and ""četrtok"" (Thursday) follow the Slavic convention. There are several systems in the different Basque dialects. In Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino),"
"Saturday Saturday is the day of the week between Friday and Sunday. The Romans named Saturday ""Sāturni diēs"" (""Saturn's Day"") no later than the 2nd century for the planet Saturn, which controlled the first hour of that day, according to Vettius Valens. The day's name was introduced into West Germanic languages and is recorded in the Low German languages such as Middle Low German ""sater(s)dach"", Middle Dutch ""saterdag"" (Modern Dutch ""zaterdag"") and Old English ""Sætern(es)dæġ"" and ""Sæterdæġ"". The day was also referred to as ""Sæternes dæġe"" in an Old English translation of Bede's ""Ecclesiastical History of the English People"". In"
"day on the electoral timetable, therefore an election can now be held on Maundy Thursday; prior to this elections were sometimes scheduled on the Tuesday before as an alternative. Thursday is aligned by the planet Jupiter and the astrological signs of Pisces and Sagittarius. Thursday Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it is the fourth day of the week. ""See Names of the days of the week for more on naming conventions. "" The name is derived from Old English ""Þūnresdæg"" and Middle English ""Thuresday"" (with loss of"
"Monday Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. According to the international standard ISO 8601 it is the first day of the week. The name of Monday is derived from Old English ""Mōnandæg"" and Middle English ""Monenday"", originally a translation of Latin ""dies lunae"" ""day of the Moon"". The names of the day of the week were coined in the Roman era, in Greek and Latin, in the case of Monday as ἡμέρᾱ Σελήνης, ""diēs Lūnae"" ""day of the Moon"". Most languages use terms either directly derived from these names, or loan-translations based on them. The"
"bags of ashes. The Assumption of Mary coincides with ""Ferragosto"" on 15 August, the summer vacation period which may be a long weekend or most of the month. Each city or town also celebrates a public holiday on the occasion of the festival of the local patron saint, for example: Rome on 29 June (Saints Peter and Paul) and Milan on 7 December (S. Ambrose). There are many festivals and festivities in Italy. Some of them include the Palio di Siena horse race, Holy Week rites, Saracen Joust of Arezzo, Saint Ubaldo Day in Gubbio, Giostra della Quintana in Foligno,"
"derive from Latin, days of the week still preserve the names of the original Roman deities, such as the Italian for Tuesday, ""martedì"" (from the Latin ""Martis dies""). This is also the case with Saturn in some West Germanic languages; such as the English ""Saturday"", the West Frisian """", the Low German """" and the Dutch """" all meaning Saturn's day. Simek emphasizes the paucity of evidence and notes that comparison with Roman gods is insufficient to reconstruct ancient Germanic gods and equate them definitively with those of later Norse mythology. The following is a list of Greek, Roman, Etruscan,"
"the series' thirty-third entry. In this adventure, Jack and Annie travel back in time on a mission to prevent Venice from being destroyed by a flood. Carnival of Venice The Carnival of Venice (, ) is an annual festival held in Venice, Veneto, Italy. The Carnival ends with the Christian celebration of Lent, forty days before Easter, on Shrove Tuesday (""Martedì Grasso"" or ""Mardi Gras""), the day before Ash Wednesday. The festival is world-famous for its elaborate masks. It's said that the Carnival of Venice was started from a victory of the Republic of Venice against the Patriarch of Aquileia,"
"on a traditional repertoire. Other Italian folk song traditions are less common than ballads and lyric songs. Strophic, religious ""laude"", sometimes in Latin, are still occasionally performed, and epic songs are also known, especially those of the ""maggio"" celebration. Professional female singers perform dirges similar in style to those elsewhere in Europe. Yodeling exists in northern Italy, though it is most commonly associated with the folk musics of other Alpine nations. The Italian Carnival is associated with several song types, especially the Carnival of Bagolino, Brescia. Choirs and brass bands are a part of the mid-Lenten holiday, while the begging"
"and 6:00. Italy does not have a legally mandated closing time. Alcohol may be served or sold anywhere 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In Rome, an ordinance was passed in January 2009 to make 2 a.m. the last call in Campo de' Fiori and the neighborhoods of Trastevere and Testaccio. The new last call time for these areas was initiated to curtail nighttime commotion in these popular parts of Rome. Japan does not have a legally mandated closing time. Alcohol may be served or sold anywhere 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Until December 18,"
"Tuesday). In Venice at the turn into the twentieth century, for example, it was marked by ""masquerades, a battle of flowers on the Plaza, a general illumination and the opening of the lottery"". The English writer Marie Corelli mentioned ""Giovedi Grasso"" in her second novel, ""Vendetta"" (1886), as a day when ""the fooling and the mumming, the dancing, shrieking, and screaming would be at its height."" In Poland, Fat Thursday is called Tłusty Czwartek. People purchase their favorite pastries from their local bakeries. Traditional foods include pączki, which are large deep-fried pieces of especially rich dough, traditionally filled with plum"
"it is called ""pazartesi"", which also means ""after Sunday"". Historically, the Greco-Roman week began with Sunday (""dies solis""), and Monday (""dies lunae"") was the second day of the week. It is still the custom to refer to Monday as ""feria secunda"" in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. Quakers also traditionally referred to Monday as ""Second Day"". The Portuguese and the Greek (Eastern Orthodox Church) also retain the ecclesiastical tradition (Portuguese ""segunda-feira"", Greek ""Δευτέρα"" """"devtéra"""" ""second""). Likewise the Modern Hebrew name for Monday is ""yom-sheni"" (יום שני). In modern times, it has become more common to consider Monday"
"for one's sins by way of confession and doing penance. Thus Shrovetide gets its name from the shriving that English Christians were expected to do prior to receiving absolution immediately before Lent begins. Shrove Tuesday is the last day of ""shrovetide"", somewhat analogous to the ""Carnival"" tradition that developed separately in countries of Latin Europe. The terms ""Shrove Monday"" and ""Shrove Tuesday"" are no longer widely used in the United States or Canada outside of liturgical traditions, such as in the Lutheran, Anglican, and Roman Catholic Churches. The British name Collopy Monday is after the traditional dish of the day,"
"referendum, 2016 succeeded. The Workers' Statute of 1970 has been recently modified, and this plays an increasingly important role. There are constitutional rights of employment laid out in Italy's constitution. Italy's constitution gives all citizens a right to work, have a fair pay, states the maximum hours that one is able to work, and established paid vacation. Since 1987, the Italian department of labour set the maximum hours that one can work to 48 hours a week. Workers must take one day off for every six days work (Once a week). Workers are entitled to national holidays and regular holidays."
"finding a virgin. In his misadventures will meet various strange women like Ciurga and Isolda and finally meets Dulcistella, his neighbour, who finally breaks the curse, on Saturday 13, making Aldo to fall in love with her. Moreover, in that moment it's also revealed that Giuda is carillon's puppet, so he turns back into the carillon ready to serve next lover who will bw cursed. Venerdì 12 Venerdì 12 (Friday 12) is a comic strip series created by Italian author Leo Ortolani first published in 1996 as a series of the comic magazine L'isola che non c'è and continued on"
"the seventh day of the week. The name ""Sunday"", the day of the Sun, is derived from Hellenistic astrology, where the seven planets, known in English as Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon, each had an hour of the day assigned to them, and the planet which was regent during the first hour of any day of the week gave its name to that day. During the 1st and 2nd century, the week of seven days was introduced into Rome from Egypt, and the Roman names of the planets were given to each successive day. Germanic"
"Domenica in Domenica in is an Italian Sunday long-running television show broadcast by Rai 1 since 1976. During its history, the title was also spelled as ""Domenica in..."" and ""Dom&Nica in"". The show was originally planned to offer to the Italian audience, affected in those years by a profound austerity, an alternative to the typical Sunday afternoon trips and outings. It has been the first Italian program to go well beyond the standard duration of 2 hours and to have a very long running, about six hours from 14,00 p.m. to 20,00 p.m. A program which is different in its"
"after the Quinquagesima and the day between Shrove Monday and Ash Wednesday. Because it is the last day before the Lenten fast, a tradition has developed of eating buns, called ""fastlagsbullar"", ""fettisdagsbullar"" (Fat Tuesday Buns) or ""semla"". The day is also called ""White Tuesday"" because the buns are made out of white flour. The day is called ""Mardi Gras"" in France, ""Carnaval"" or ""Vastenavond"" in the Netherlands, ""laskiainen""/""fastlagstisdagen"" in Finland, ""vastlapäev"" in Estonia, and ""Fastelavn"" in Denmark. In the UK it is known as Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day. Syrian Catholics have celebrated the day as ""Drunkard's Thursday"" with dolmas"
"Week A week is a time unit equal to seven days. It is the standard time period used for cycles of rest days in most parts of the world, mostly alongside—although not strictly part of—the Gregorian calendar. The days of the week were named after the classical planets (derived from the astrological system of planetary hours) in the Roman era. In English, the names are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday . ISO 8601 includes the ISO week date system, a numbering system for weeks within a given year – each week begins on a Monday and is"
"case (left), the business opens from 10 am to 7 pm on weekdays, 10 AM to 5 pm on Saturdays and is closed on Sundays. Note that the listing uses 24-hour time. Roman numerals may also be used for floor numbering. For instance, apartments in central Amsterdam are indicated as 138-, with both an Arabic numeral (number of the block or house) and a Roman numeral (floor number). The apartment on the ground floor is indicated as . In Italy, where roads outside built-up areas have kilometre signs, major roads and motorways also mark 100-metre subdivisionals, using Roman numerals from"
"(Fat Tuesday). It's the main day of Carnival along with the Thursday before, called Giovedí Grasso (Fat Thursday), which ratifies the start of the celebrations. The most famous Carnivals in Italy are in Venice, Viareggio and Ivrea. Ivrea has the characteristic ""Battle of Oranges"" that finds its roots in medieval times. The Italian version of the festival is spelled Carnevale. The Netherlands also has a festival similar to Mardi Gras. It's called Carnaval and is similar to the Venice Carnival. The origin of the word Carnaval is ""carnem levare"" which means ""to take away meat"" in Latin, or ""carne vale"","
"former name ""Wodenstag"" (""Wodan's day"") in the 10th century. The Dutch name for the day, ""woensdag"", has the same etymology as English ""Wednesday"", it comes from Middle Dutch ""wodenesdag"", ""woedensdag"" (""Wodan's day""). Most Slavic languages follow this pattern and use derivations of ""the middle"" (Belarusian серада ""serada"", Bulgarian сряда ""sryada"", Croatian ""srijeda"", Czech ""středa"", Macedonian среда ""sreda"", Polish ""środa"", Russian среда ""sredá"", Serbian среда/""sreda"" or cриједа/""srijeda"", Slovak ""streda"", Slovene ""sreda"", Ukrainian середа ""sereda""). The Finnish name is ""Keskiviikko"" (""middle of the week""), as is the Icelandic name: ""Miðvikudagur"", and the Faroese name: ""Mikudagur"" (""Mid-week day""). Some dialects of Faroese have"
"celebrated Venetian wines include Bardolino, Prosecco, Soave, Amarone, and Valpolicella DOC wines. Traditionally, meals in Italy typically contained four or five courses. Especially on weekends, meals are often seen as a time to spend with family and friends rather than simply for sustenance; thus, meals tend to be longer than in other cultures. During holidays such as Christmas and New Year's Eve, feasts can last for hours. Today, the traditional Italian menu is kept mainly for special events (such as weddings) while an everyday menu includes only the first and/or second course, the side dish, and coffee. A notable aspect"