"no single word for a two-week period, and the equivalent terms ""two weeks"", ""14 days"", or ""15 days"" (counting inclusively) have to be used. Fortnight A fortnight is a unit of time equal to 14 days (2 weeks). The word derives from the , meaning """". Some wages and salaries are paid on a fortnightly basis; however in North America it is far more common to use the term ""biweekly"". Neither of these terms should be confused with ""semimonthly"", which divides a year into exactly 24 periods (12 months × 2), instead of the 26 (≈52 weeks ÷ 2) of"
"a fortnight ""pythefnos"" means ""a fifteen night"". Eight-day week Some historical calendars had ""weeks"" of eight days. In the Burmese version of Theravada Buddhism, the week has eight days. Wednesday is divided into Wednesday proper (midnight to noon) and Rahu (noon to midnight). Each day is associated with a compass direction, a planet, and a totem animal. The ancient Etruscans developed an eight-day market week known as the nundinum around the 8th or 7th century BC. This was passed on to the Romans no later than the 6th century BC. As Rome expanded, it encountered the seven-day week and for"
"twelve hours, with two shifts generally paired together: A working days and B working nights while C and D are off, and vice versa. It is not uncommon for shifts to rotate between days and nights, most often with six months spent on nights and six on days. This shift is sometimes known as 2-2-3 or ""two, two and three"". In the ""7-day fortnight plan"" or ""2-3-2"" plan, employees work their allotted hours within 7 days rather than 10 in a fortnight, i.e. fourteen days and nights. Therefore, 41 hours per week equate to 82 hours per fortnight, which is"
"moon (and vice versa). This is equal to 14.77 days. A fortnight is a term that is used prominently in sporting circles – as many major sports events have a two-week or approximately half-month time frame. In tennis, Wimbledon and the other Grand Slam tournaments are played over two weeks and are often referred to as lasting a fortnight. The Summer and Winter Olympics are also slightly longer than two weeks in length and may be referenced in this manner as well. Likewise various other events in the sporting world could fall under this characterization. In many languages, there is"
"worked in seven days, at 11–12 hours per shift. This shift structure is used in the broadcast television industry, as well as many law enforcement agencies, as well as health care fields such as nursing and clinical laboratories in the US. One of the advantages of using this plan is each shift pair, for example A and B, will get time off on weekends alternatively, because the schedule is fixed and does not drift. A ""10-day fortnight plan"" uses six shifts. Each shift works for seven days straight for their first week. On their ""off week"", they can choose three"
"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"
"English, when counting ""8"" days from Sunday, Monday will be ""day 1"", Tuesday ""day 2"", and the following Monday will be the ""eighth day"". When counting ""inclusively,"" the Sunday (the start day) will be ""day 1"" and therefore the following Sunday will be the ""eighth day"". For example, the French phrase for ""fortnight"" is ""quinzaine"" (15 [days]), and similar words are present in Greek (δεκαπενθήμερο, ""dekapenthímero""), Spanish (""quincena"") and Portuguese (""quinzena""). In contrast, the English word ""fortnight"" itself derives from ""a fourteen-night"", as the archaic ""sennight"" does from ""a seven-night""; the English words are not examples of inclusive counting. Names"
"jokingly in computer science. Besides having the meaning ""any obscure unit"", the derived unit ""furlongs per fortnight"" has also served frequently in classroom examples of unit conversion and dimensional analysis. One microfortnight is equal to 1.2096 seconds. This has become a joke in computer science because in the VMS operating system, the TIMEPROMPTWAIT variable, which holds the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realizes that the current value is bogus, is set in microfortnights. This is because the computer uses a loop instead of the internal clock"
"hours of the week are grouped differently. It can be used as a base for several shift plans, e.g. four 7-hour shifts per day where every employee works six shifts for a total of 42 hours per week. The 8-day week with 21 hours per ""day"" is a general concept for full week coverage where the 168 hours of the week are grouped differently. It can be used as a base for several shift plans, e.g. three 7-hour shifts per day where every employee works six shifts for a total of 42 hours per week, but to get whole days"
"mean simply a ""se'nnight"" or seven-day week, namely, the interval between two Sabbaths. Jesus's parable of the Pharisee and the Publican describes the Pharisee as fasting ""twice a week"" (Greek ""dis tou sabbatou"", literally, ""twice of the Sabbath""). Seven annual Biblical festivals, called by the name ""miqra"" (""called assembly"") in Hebrew and ""High Sabbath"" in English, serve as supplemental testimonies to Sabbath. These are recorded in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy and do not necessarily occur on the Sabbath. They are observed by Jews and a minority of Christians. Three of them occur in spring: the first and seventh"
"terms derived from Latin ""septimana"" (""a seven""). Slavic has a formation ""*tъ(žь)dьnь"" (Serbian тједан, Croatian tjedan, Ukrainian тиждень, Czech ""týden"", Polish ""tydzień""), from ""*tъ"" ""this"" + ""*dьnь"" ""day"". Chinese has 星期, as it were ""planetary time unit"". A week is defined as an interval of exactly seven days, so that technically, except at daylight saving time transitions or leap seconds, With respect to the Gregorian calendar: In a Gregorian mean year, there are 365.2425 days, and thus exactly or 52.1775 weeks (unlike the Julian year of 365.25 days or ≈ 52.1786 weeks, which cannot be represented by a finite decimal"
"to 18:00), followed by 24 hours' rest, then a ""nightly shift"" (18:00 to 06:00), finishing with 48 hours' rest. This plan needs four teams for full coverage, and makes an average 42-hour workweek. The pattern repeats in a 4-week cycle, i.e. over 28 days, and has 14 shifts per employee therein. In ""four on, one off"" the employee only gets one day off after a work streak of four days. There are 28 shifts per employee in a five-week cycle (i.e. 35 days). This adds up to an average of 42 hours worked per week with 7½-hour shifts. This plan"
"YY. The term ""week"" is sometimes expanded to refer to other time units comprising a few days. Such ""weeks"" of between four and ten days have been used historically in various places. Intervals longer than 10 days are not usually termed ""weeks"" as they are closer in length to the fortnight or the month than to the seven-day week. Calendars unrelated to the Chaldean, Hellenistic, Christian or Jewish traditions often have time cycles between the day and the month of varying lengths, sometimes also called ""weeks"". An eight-day week was used in Ancient Rome and possibly in the pre-Christian Celtic"
"have five weeks, all other months are considered to have exactly four weeks. The two ""EFA seasons"" are winter (WK 40 – WK 13) and summer (WK 14 – WK 39), each having exactly 26 weeks. Due to the existence of leap years, some EFA-Decembers have six weeks (e.g. 2004 and 2009), a strong difference from the commonly used Gregorian calendar system where February is the leap month. The EFA day is composed of six blocks of 4 hours each. For each block baseload products exist (i.e. WD 1/2/3/4/5/6 and WE 1/2/3/4/5/6). Peak load products only exit for ""WD3"", ""WD4"""
"the year, which together have 360 days and 360 nights). The most famous example of this type is the Riddle of the Sphinx. This Estonian example shows the pattern: The riddle describes a crawling baby, a standing person, and an old person with a walking stick. This type includes riddles along the lines of this German example: The conceit here is that Two-legs is a person, Three-legs is a three-legged stool, Four-legs is a dog, and One-leg is a walking stick. An example of this type is given here in thirteenth-century Icelandic form: The cow has four udders, four legs,"
"determined by them. Let us take our Saturday year of 2007-2008 as an example: the first 50 days of this year are also called Saturday period. Consequently, the next 50 days are Sunday period. The remaining periods of the cycles follow the weekdays order. But, the total of the days in the cycles are 350 or 50 weeks. So that, in order to organize a year, and to allow the succeeding years to follow the order, two weeks and one day must be added to this number which results in 365 days. The following chart shows what we have said"
"full day). However, government offices and some private companies have modernised through enacting the American and European standard of working Monday through Friday. Currently, 50% of the luxury beach resorts in Phuket have a five-day working week. Of the remaining 50%, 23% have taken steps to reform their 6-day workweek through such measures as reducing the working week from 6 days to 5.5 days. The standard working week in the United States begins on Monday and ends on Friday, 40 hours per week, with Saturday and Sunday being weekend days. However, in practice, only 42% of employees work 40-hour weeks."
"Quinzaine Quinzaine is a word of French language derivation: 'a quinzaine' is to Fifteen as 'a dozen' is to Twelve, and 'a trental' is to Thirty. It has various contexts of use in English. 'La quinzaine' is used in French to indicate a two week period, just like 'huit jours' indicates a one week period (in France) even though two weeks are fourteen days and one week is 7 days. It is an old habit to add the current day as to say 'in two weeks plus today'. The English language equivalent is 'fortnight' which means fourteen days. A Quinzaine"
"this, a driver cannot exceed 90 hours driving in a fortnight. Within each period of 24 hours after the end of the previous daily rest period or weekly rest period a driver must take a new daily rest period. An 11-hour (or more) daily rest is called a regular daily rest period. Alternatively, a driver can split a regular daily rest period into two periods. The first period must be at least 3 hours of uninterrupted rest and can be taken at any time during the day. The second must be at least 9 hours of uninterrupted rest, giving a"
"week of the year since it is a week before 4 January which is always in the first week of the year. Using only the ordinal year number, the number of weeks in that year can be determined: The following 71 years, shown with light background, in a 400-year cycle have 53 weeks (371 days); years not listed have 52 weeks (364 days); add 2000 for current years: On average, a year has 53 weeks every = 5.6338… years, and these long ISO years are 43 times 6 years apart, 27 times 5 years apart, and once 7 years apart"
"common in American railroad employment, especially for train crews. In many North American fire departments, firefighters work 24-hour shifts. They are authorized to sleep in the fire station during the time spent on night shift. Most departments split the 168-hour-long week between 3 or 4 work groups (sometimes referred to as 'shifts' or 'platoon groups'), resulting in a 56- or 42-hour workweek, respectively. Some departments reduce the average workweek by scheduling an extra day off for each firefighter in the work group, frequently reducing a 56-hour workweek to a 48-hour workweek by scheduling a 24-hour ""Kelly Day"" every three weeks."
"length of 13 weeks per quarter is chosen which is then subdivided into 5 + 4 + 4 weeks, 4 + 5 + 4 weeks or 4 + 4 + 5 weeks. The final quarter has 14 weeks in it when there are 53 weeks in the year. When it is necessary to allocate a week to a single month, the rule for first week of the year might be applied, although ISO 8601 does not consider this case. The resulting pattern would be irregular. The only 4 months (or 5 in a long year) of 5 weeks would be"
"simply expressed as in ""; "" (""(week) 28"") in both writing (abbreviated ) and speech, also labels and in computers' notation. The week begins with a Monday and week 1 is the week containing the first four-day week. The 12-hour clock is often used in the spoken language and idiomatic expressions. The 24-hour notation is used in writing, with a full point as the standardised and recommended separator (e.g. “” or “”). However, colon is almost exclusively used instead of full point in computing environments, especially in Sami languages. The conventions are the same for Finnish and Swedish. Date and"
"off groups work alternating double shifts. ""Four on, four off"" is a shift plan that is being heavily adopted in the United Kingdom and in some parts of the United States. An employee works for four days, usually in 12-hour shifts (7:00 to 7:00) then has four days off. While this creates a ""48-hour week"" (42-hour average over the year) with long shifts, it may be preferred because it shrinks the work week down to four days, and then gives the employee four days' rest—double the time of a usual weekend. Due to the plan, employees effectively work an eight-day"
"six 12-day weeks. Each phase consisted of two three-week months, making each year ten months long. Years began on a ""jiǎzǐ"" () day (and a 72-day wood phase), followed by a ""bǐngzǐ"" day () and a 72-day fire phase; a ""wùzǐ"" () day and a 72-day earth phase; a ""gēngzǐ"" () day and a 72-day metal phase, and a ""rénzǐ"" day () followed by a water phase. Other days were tracked using the Yellow River Map (""He Tu""). Another version is a four-quarters calendar (, or ). Weeks were ten days long, with one month consisting of three weeks. A"
"calendar. Traces of a nine-day week are found in Baltic languages and in Welsh. The ancient Chinese calendar had a ten-day week, as did the ancient Egyptian calendar (and, incidentally, the French Republican Calendar, dividing its 30-day months into thirds). A six-day week is found in the Akan Calendar. Several cultures used a five-day week, including the 10th century Icelandic calendar, the Javanese calendar, and the traditional cycle of market days in Korea. The Igbo have a ""market week"" of four days. Evidence of a ""three-day week"" has been derived from the names of the days of the week in"
"the employer says otherwise, which some do. The working week is Monday to Friday. Working time must not exceed 8 hours per day and 40 hours per week (on average, annualised). The standard working week in India for most office jobs begins on Monday and ends on Saturday. The work schedule is 60 hours per week, Sunday being a rest day. However, most government offices and the software industry follow a five-day workweek. All major industries along with services like transport, hospitality, healthcare etc. work in shifts. Central government offices follow a five-day week. State governments follow half-day working on"
"Eight-day week Some historical calendars had ""weeks"" of eight days. In the Burmese version of Theravada Buddhism, the week has eight days. Wednesday is divided into Wednesday proper (midnight to noon) and Rahu (noon to midnight). Each day is associated with a compass direction, a planet, and a totem animal. The ancient Etruscans developed an eight-day market week known as the nundinum around the 8th or 7th century BC. This was passed on to the Romans no later than the 6th century BC. As Rome expanded, it encountered the seven-day week and for a time attempted to include both. The"
"week while defining a year of 13 months with 28 days each. It was the official calendar of the Eastman Kodak Company for decades. In the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1940, most factory and enterprise workers, but not collective farm workers, used five- and six-day work weeks while the entire country continued to use the traditional seven-day week. From 1929 to 1951, five national holidays were days of rest (, , ). From autumn 1929 to summer 1931, the remaining 360 days of the year were subdivided into 72 five-day work weeks beginning on . Workers were assigned any"
"at a Sunday. Since the week has 7 days, the offset must be in the range 0 to 6 and determined by modulo 7 arithmetic. ""e"" is determined by calculating . These constants may seem strange at first, but are quite easily explainable if we remember that we operate under mod 7 arithmetic. To begin with, ensures that we take care of the fact that weekdays slide for each year. A normal year has 365 days, but , so 52 full weeks make up one day too little. Hence, each consecutive year, the weekday ""slides one day forward"", meaning if"
"Four-day week A four-day week is an arrangement where a workplace or school has its employees or students work or attend school over the course of four days rather than the more customary five. This arrangement can be a part of flexible working hours, and is sometimes used to cut costs, as seen in the example of the so-called ""4/10 work week,"" where employees work a normal 40 hours across four days, i.e. a ""four-ten"" week. In 2008, employees of the Utah state government all began working ten-hour days from Monday to Thursday. By closing state government offices on Fridays,"
"the first day are both included when counting the days of a week. The seven-day week is referred to as ""Nnawɔtwe"" (literally eight days). Like ""Nnanson"" the last day and the first day are both included when counting the days of a week. When the six-day week is counted side-by-side with the seven-day week it takes a total of 42 days to reach all combinations. The result of these combinations is shown below; the four ""dabɔne"" are in italics: The 42-day cycle shown here, as recorded in Kwahu, is the same recorded for the Brong (i.e., Bono Techiman) a state"
"year after year. The familiar drift of weekdays with respect to dates results from the fact that the number of days in a physical year (one full orbit of earth around the sun, approximately 365.24 days) is not a multiple of seven. By reducing common years to 364 days (52 weeks), and adding an extra week every five or six years, the Hanke–Henry Permanent Calendar eliminates weekday drift and synchronizes the calendar year with the seasonal change as the Earth circles the Sun. The leap week, or ""mini-month"", known as ""Xtr (or Extra)"", occurs every year that either begins (dominical"