Names of the days of the week Meiji era. In China, with the founding of the Republic of China in 1911, Monday through Saturday in China are now named after the luminaries implicitly with the numbers. Sunday comes first in order in calendars shown in the table below. In the Judeo-Christian or Abrahamic tradition, the first day of the week is Sunday. Biblical Sabbath (corresponding to Saturday), when God rested from , made the day following Sabbath the first day of the week (corresponding to Sunday). Seventh-day Sabbaths were sanctified for celebration and rest. After the week was adopted in early Christianity, Sunday remained the first day
Determination of the day of the week determined for the latter part of the analysis. By using a given day August 13, 2009 which was a Thursday as a reference, with "Base" and "n" being the number of days and weeks it has been since 01/01/0001 to the given day, respectively and "k" the day into the given week which must be less than 7, "Base" is expressed as Knowing that a year divisible by 4 or 400 is a leap year while a year divisible by 100 and not 400 is not a leap year, a software program can be written to find the number of