Kuwait switches to Friday-Saturday weekend

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CrazY

Discussion Starter · May 27, 2007

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) -

Kuwait on Sunday decided to switch its weekend to Friday-Saturday from Thursday-Friday, starting on September 1, State Minister Faisal al-Hajji told the official KUNA news agency.

Kuwait will follow the example of Gulf partners the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar which all made the same switch last year in a measure designed to bring them closer to the working week in the West.

The Kuwaiti decision, which applies to government offices, was taken during the weekly meeting of the cabinet in the oil-rich Gulf emirate on the recommendation of the Civil Service Commission.

Only oil powerhouse Saudi Arabia and Oman still apply the Thursday-Friday Muslim weekend in the six-nation alliance of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

The private sector in Kuwait is not bound to follow the government, but banks and most of the oil sector already apply a Friday-Saturday weekend to be more in line with international markets, which close Saturday-Sunday.

Yahoo! News

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Kuwaiti

· #2 · May 29, 2007

we all know the main reason why they did the switch was due to the fact that they could have slightly similar working days with the western world, in order to boost business spendings in the region. having said that, it also makes logical sense to start the week on sunday since sunday in arabic means "day one". its funny how "day one" was actually day 2 all the time.

even in christian calendars, you see the week starting on sunday but economically-speaking monday is the first day of work. quite complicated, but i think its because nobody wanted to start the week with sunday since it was jewish-oriented.

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immortal

· #3 · May 30, 2007

Abmbaih @ the pic.

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B-Patriot

· #4 · May 30, 2007

Kuwaiti said:
we all know the main reason why they did the switch was due to the fact that they could have slightly similar working days with the western world, in order to boost business spendings in the region. having said that, it also makes logical sense to start the week on sunday since sunday in arabic means "day one". its funny how "day one" was actually day 2 all the time.

even in christian calendars, you see the week starting on sunday but economically-speaking monday is the first day of work. quite complicated, but i think its because nobody wanted to start the week with sunday since it was jewish-oriented.

What do u mean in Europe they start their weekend on Sunday!?

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^Anton^

· #5 · May 30, 2007

I think he means calendars in some European countries (e.g. UK) start the week on Sunday, showing a week like:
SUN MON TUES WED THR FRI SAT

But it's not like that all throughout Europe, in France or Spain, for example, calendars start the week on "Monday".

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sargon

· #6 · May 30, 2007

B-Patriot said:
What do u mean in Europe they start their weekend on Sunday!?

Double click the date icon on your computer and you would notice that the first day in a week is Sunday

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qwazy

· #7 · May 31, 2007

Assembly rejects Fri-Sat weekend

May 30, 2007
By B Izzak

The National Assembly yesterday passed a recommendation calling on the government to delay the application of the weekend switch from Thursday to Saturday until "careful studies" were made on its consequences. Many MPs criticised the law on "religious and social grounds", with a number of them warning of a traffic problem on Saturdays as all employees will be off on that day.

The government on Sunday decided to switch the weekend from Thursday-Friday to Friday-Saturday starting from September 1, even as a number of Islamist MPs vented anger on the decision, some saying it was an act of "imitating Jews". MPs called on the government in the recommendation to study the religious aspects of the decision before implementing it.

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CrazY

Discussion Starter · #8 · May 31, 2007

wtf,,, taraa athooona,, its all about religious social grounds :s

imitating jews!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they cant do anything the civil service passed it, the cabinet passed it

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