Weekend vs. First Day of Week

[ccoker (Chad Coker)]

There needs to be a way to select the preferred weekend days independent of the first day of the week.

I propose a second option in Account Settings that allows you to not only select the first day of the week but also identify the preferred weekend days.

Currently, if you select Sunday as the first day of the week in the Account Settings then the small drop down calendars on Board tasks show Sunday as the first column in the calendar (as most of our company and the US is accustomed to). The issue is this forces the Workload/Timeline views to shade Friday/Saturday as the weekend days. This causes the Workload view to show all scheduled work on Fridays as a red overtime circle because you are scheduling on the “weekend” (or not at all if you have weekends hidden), but our weekend is actually Saturday/Sunday.

If you select Monday as the first day of the week in the Account Settings then the Workload/Timeline views will shade Saturday/Sunday as the weekend days (which is great for us). However, now the small drop down calendars show Monday as the first column in the calendar (which many of our staff does not like).

[anush (Anush Ramani)]

Sounds like the same as this: 'First Day of the Week' needs Clarification

I agree with you. I get confused every single time I try setting a date range. Monday.com really needs to consider the user’s locale when showing a calendar (doesn’t even need to be a preference) – the same way every other major calendar does it including Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Windows Calendar, and literally every other calendar I’ve come across.

[anush (Anush Ramani)]

This is how another competitor does it: Changing Your Language and Localization Settings - Teamwork Support

The definition of the weekend should be decoupled from the first day of the week – they are different concepts.

[emilykessler]

Hello Monday support - any update on this? Is this feature being worked on? This is a very basic thing that I think a lot of people expect to be able to work in this way.

[kjohnson_folklore (Kyle Johnson)]

Looking for an update here as well. The ability to choose the week start date from Monday to Sunday should be an individual user preference instead of an account-wide setting that affects all users. Consider teams that have users in multiple regions where default week start day is different.

I created a feature request that addresses this specific use case of the feature:

"First Day of the Week" setting as User Preference vs. Account-wide Setting

Currently the “First Day of the Week” is an Admin setting. Since some regions default to using a weekly calendar that starts on Sunday while others start on Monday, it makes sense to me that this setting should be an individual user preference. See this Monday article for more information on where the setting is currently located. Consider teams that have users in multiple regions or with differing calendar view preferences, it would make sense to let each user display the calendar with a week…

[a_zinman (Adam Zinman)]

Hi Monday support,

I agree strongly with this feature request as I believe it should be a standard option for large companies that advertise resource management.

In our case we have technicians that work Monday - Saturday and a support office that works Monday - Friday. I have no way to set this up in Monday and hence cannot accurate plan our resources in the gantt/workload widgets

We could work around this if everyone can be planned Monday-Saturday. Then we reduce the workload effort for our support office to 40hrs a week (even though it’s planned over 6 days instead of 5) and technicians to 48hrs a week (6 days at 8hrs a day). However I can’t do this as there are no settings to work Mon-Sat.

[T_K]

Hi all,
I’ve been in contact with Monday.com staff and it sounds like this fix may finally make it onto their to-do list. I encourage everyone for whom this is important to contact them directly to help raise the priority.
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[rcalkins (Russell Calkins)]

I mean it seems like a project management platform should have a calendar that works… but what do I know?

[T_K]

Haha that does seem like a rational opinion, doesn’t it?

[rmsc5h (RMC)]

I agree- this should be a personal feature for each user.

[themondaypro (Jesse Hernandez)]

Commenting on this feature request to share my support.

Many US companies, in my experience, view calendars with Sunday as the first day of the week: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. They also consider Saturdays and Sundays to be weekend days.

Unfortunately, it isn’t possible to configure Monday.com this way. If I set Sunday as my first day of the week, Monday.com will assume that Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday are my workdays and that Friday and Saturday are my weekend days. This makes my calendar look like I expect, but it breaks the functionality of the WORKDAYS() formula.

If I want Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday to be my workdays, I need to set my first day of the week to be Monday.

I would like to set my first day of the week to Sunday, and have Saturday and Sunday be my weekend days.

[Julietteb (Juliette)]

Hi Everyone,

Excited to share that the ability to choose the day of the week is available on both the account level and the user level.

At the account level, admins can define:

1. What is a weekend (and hence what is the first day of the week)
2. Whether or not they would like to hide / show weekends

By default, users will see the pickers / widgets according to what their country considers to be the first day of the week, but they have the ability to override this in the My Profile section.

Hope you enjoy this new feature and if you have any questions let me know!