How Did Saturday and Sunday Become a Weekend? All pages

KOMPAS.com – Saturdays and Sundays are two days that most people in the world refer to weekend.

The days where we are free from work responsibilities, we have a lot of free time for our family, as well as ourselves.

Not surprisingly, many families take advantage of the weekend as a time to gather together, travel, or simply rest without office disturbances and so on.

But have you ever thought, among the 7 days in a week, why are Saturday and Sunday chosen to be the end of a week?

Why not Tuesday and Wednesday, or random Monday and Saturday, for example?

It turns out that all of these have their own historical background.

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Religious concept

Quoted from The Sydney Morning Herald it is said that all of this comes from Jewish religious concepts. They are familiar with the concept of the Sabbath, or the day they devote to worshiping God.

On that day, people do not work, but worship.

In their tradition, the Sabbath runs from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday the following day.

Meanwhile for Christians, they specialize Sunday as a day for their worship and rest.

But over time, these two days, Saturday and Sunday, were accepted as days used to rest from routine work.

Starting in the 18th and 19th centuries in England. The workers asked for time to rest longer in the middle of harsh working conditions, in the era of industrialization.

As for launching BBC, The existence of Saturdays and Sundays as weekends departs from the custom of the Babylonians 4,000 years ago.

They believe the 7 planets that make up the solar system make their own numbers which are considered so sacred that they influenced the determination of the day for the inhabitants of Babylon.

This concept was finally found in people in the Middle East and Europe.

In 19th century England, Sunday was believed to be a holy day so it was expected not to be used for work.

This concept holds that people who spend their free time on that day for spiritual things are something noble.

However, workers in that era also still made Monday a holiday as a tradition. There is no religious reason for this.

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5 working days

Determining Sunday and Monday as work holidays, in fact, does not bring benefits to the industry. On the other hand, productivity has decreased.

Finally, the factory owners took the initiative to change Monday’s holiday to Saturday, but only for half a day.

This means that Saturday still goes to work, but not at full time.

That way, when Monday comes the workers can have full minds and enthusiasm.

Over time, the holidays were not only half of Saturdays and Sundays, but in those two days in full, whole.

As mentioned earlier, Friday afternoon to Saturday evening is the Sabbath day for the Jews, while Sunday is a holy day for Christians.

Finally, we introduce the concept of working 5 days a week.

For example Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, he made Saturdays and Sundays holidays for his employees in 1962.

He also sets the working hours in a week, which is 40 hours.

Apart from being able to be used for resting, it is also believed that this holiday can be an opportunity for workers to spend their money buying consumer products so that the circulation of money continues.

The United States officially adopted the five-day system in 1932. This was intended to fight unemployment that resulted from the Great Depression.

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