Hello,
is it possible to change the first day of the week in the app calendar? If not would be really great to have that option.
Welcome to the forums @mansour_SUF !
I donāt believe there is a way to change that atm.
I personally like having Monday at the start, but Iām sure youāre not alone.
Iāve moved this to Feature Requests 
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Hi Glen,
Thanks for the response and the welcoming remarks
I prefer to have the first day of the plan as the first day of the calendar :), also my week starts on sunday
Cheers
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You can make your plan start on any day you choose. The default is to start on Monday but thereās no reason not to have your plan start any day you like. The calendar itself though, at least at this time, is not configurable.
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Welcome aboard. As Sir Glen has pointed out you can set your plan to start on any day.
As for the first day of the week question/debate hereās my geeked out answerā¦
Its an International Standard (ISO 8601) that states Monday is the first āofficialā day of the week.
Most countries have adopted that as their āstandardā and the last time I had to look this up only about 25% of the population considered a day other than Monday as the first day of the week.
ć/geek_sessionć
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In terms of countries you are correct. However in terms of population (which is most relevant here), it is split.
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Most people observe the idea of a weekend, and that is defined as Saturday-Sunday, not Friday-Saturday. Imagine using a traditional paper calendar, and you want to make note of a weekend trip out of town where you leave Sat morning and come back Sun night ā it makes far more sense to have both those days together at the end of the week. Having a Sunday start to the week then means you need to split this activity to both sides and it is visually weird.
Many workplaces ā universities, banks, etc. have a Mon-Fri work week, and the concept of Monday as the start of the week is pretty common. For some types of religious folks, Sunday is seen as the day of rest at the end of the week.
In my anecdotal experience, thereās far more evidence of Monday as start of week and Sunday as end from what people actually do in their lives versus a Sunday start.
Note I live in America and everything I use is Monday start (pretty much everyone I know has a M-F work week), and Iām far from alone, so resources that claim America is Sunday start are not completely accurate.
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Or you could be living in a Muslim country where the weekend is Thursday-Friday. the week begins on Saturday
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I blame the Google for the population bit. In fact I blame, Google for everythingā¦
Certainly! Iām not religious myself so hard to remember all the people who do different things. My primary point is that a resource that claims all Americans start their week on Sunday does not reflect what I experience in my own life. In America, my guess is if you asked an elementary school kid to āname the days of the week,ā theyād reply āMonday, Tuesdayā¦ā just like if you asked to recite the alphabet theyād start āa, b, cā¦ā and not āq, r, sā.
I also think a dedicated calendar app should allow any day to be the start of a week; if one is a manager of a taqueria who takes Sunday and Monday off, and the start of the week is āTaco Tuesdayā then fine, make it Tuesday.
However, for SYSTM, which Iād argue is not primarily a calendar app, and given the small team overall, Iād rather prioritize features like making an Apple TV version, which is what I use for the majority of my workouts, especially now that weāre losing RGT which did run on Apple TV. I think the ability to start a plan on any day of the week is sufficient to cover different peopleās needs, and the overall visual of the calendar is of less importance.
People keep asking for a native Apple TV version. Ask yourself two questions:
- How big is the audience who would use such a version? In RGT they gathered statistics and found that less than one percent of use was through the native application and it was difficult to maintain two different code based.
- Should the creation of a new version be prioritized over solving issues with the current code base and version where four different systems are supported?
My answer is: Create an Apple TV version when there are sufficient resources to create and maintain a completely different code base. Until then, solve the issues with the current software code. There are several applications that need serious work done on them. Support programs for Wahoo hardware and software have major problems in their current versions. This comes from someone who worked with a heavy duty application that had features added to it that literally broke our use of said application and we had to due a full backout by restore taking several days. Nobody would put up with that in the sports entertainment software business.
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Apologies, I did not mean that an Apple TV version was the most important thing for Wahoo. I simply meant that is was a feature I personally would like to see, versus changing the calendar view to allow alternate start days.
If thereās showstopping level bugs currently at play (I donāt consider lack of Sunday start a showstopper), then clearly fixing those should be a priority. Iām happily unaware of any major problem in my own usage.
As for how popular an Apple TV version would be, I personally donāt have that data, but I imagine some people at Wahoo might have a good idea. Theyād know, for example, the usage patterns for RGT and which platforms were most popular for that app, and where Apple TV stood in relation. I donāt know what āone percent of use was through the native applicationā means? Are you saying Wahoo has come out and said Apple TV users are/were only 1% of the overall RGT user base? Or something else? If the RGT Apple TV version was barely used, then I can see not prioritizing SYSTM.
I can say in some other communities, like Fulgaz, Rouvy, and some Zwift communities, usage of Apple TV seems popular enough, but thatās likely me āfinding my own tribeā out there. Iām likely to switch to Fulgaz this winter season myself.