Four-day week on transportation, heating, and substitute teachers. More modest attempts to enact a 32-hour workweek (a four-day week and an eight-hour day combined) have remained elusive in the following 80 years despite pockets of residual support. In Gambia, a four-day workweek was introduced for public officials by president Yahya Jammeh, effective as of 1 February 2013. Working hours became Mondays through Thursday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Friday foreseen as a day of rest to allow residents more time for prayer and agriculture. This regulation was abolished in early 2017 by his successor, president Adama Barrow, who decreed a half-day
Week called an octave, particularly in Roman Catholic liturgy. In German, the phrase "in acht Tagen" (literally "in eight days") means one week from today. In Italian, the phrase ("oggi otto" (literally "today eight") also means one week from today. Weeks in a Gregorian calendar year can be numbered for each year. This style of numbering is commonly used (for example, by schools and businesses) in some European and Asian countries, but rare elsewhere. ISO 8601 includes the ISO week date system, a numbering system for weeks – each week begins on a Monday and is associated with the year that