Names of the days of the week is followed by a number indicating the day: "Monday" is literally "star day one", "Tuesday" is "star day two", etc. The exception is Sunday, where rì (日), meaning "sun" or "day", is used instead of a number. In Swahili, the day begins at sunrise, unlike in the Arabic and Hebrew calendars where the day starts at sunset (therefore an offset of twelve hours), and unlike in the Western world where the day starts at midnight (therefore an offset of six hours). Saturday is therefore the first day of the week, as it is the day that includes the first night
Names of the days of the week Sun and Moon ("sunnudagur" and "mánudagur" respectively), while dispensing with the names of the explicitly heathen gods in favour of a combination of numbered days and days whose names are linked to pious or domestic routine ("föstudagur", "Fasting Day" and "laugardagur", "Washing Day"). The "washing day" is also used in other North Germanic languages, but otherwise the names correspond to those of English. The ISO prescribes Monday as the first day of the week with ISO-8601 for software date formats. The Slavic, Baltic and Uralic languages (except Finnish and partially Estonian) adopted numbering but took Monday rather than Sunday as