abbreviation for the days (monday, tuesday,..) (2024)

hi all!

how are the abbreviations for the week days??

Monday:M
Tuesday: T
Wednesday:W
Thursday:?
Friday:F
Saturday:S
Sunday:?

thank you very much

Hey there,

If I was abbreviating the days of the week I usually would use more than just one letter. ie
Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

But if you have to use just one letter then M T W T F S S will do I think because any confusion will be avoided due to the sequence of days.

Hope that helps,
Cat

yes!!

thank you again

I've found the following. Any US native can confirm them?

Sn = Sunday; M = Monday; T = Tuesday; W = Wednesday; Th = Thursday; F = Friday; S = Saturday

Iararo said:

I've found the following. Any US native can confirm them?

Sn = Sunday; M = Monday; T = Tuesday; W = Wednesday; Th = Thursday; F = Friday; S = Saturday

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Yes that looks right.

Well, there are a variety of abbreviations to choose from.

I use TH for Thursday, but I've seen R as well, when there's only room for one letter (ThuRsday). But R is not so common.

Saturday and Sunday can both be S, or Saturday = Sa and Sunday = Su.

But I think the most common abbreviations are the longer ones:
Mon.
Tues.
Weds.
Thurs.
Fri.
Sat.
Sun.

Right, as jinti stated, R as an abbreviation for Thursday is possible but not so common. Actually, the first time I ever saw it was when I went to sign up for graduate courses, and I was born and raised here in the States! The list of courses used a one-letter system for abbreviating days: M, T, W, R, F. I don´t know how they would have dealt with Saturday or Sunday had there been classes offered on those days .

Here are the "short" abbreviations I use, followed by the "long" ones:
M
T
W
Th
F
S (or Sa)
Su (I, personally, have never seen Sunday abbreviated as Sn, which is what Iararo has found. That´s not to that Sn is wrong, I´ve just never seen it before today)

Mon
Tue (or Tues)
Wed (I, personally, don´t use "Weds", which is what jinti uses. Again, it´s not to say that Weds is wrong--I don´t know if it is--but I just don´t use it)
Thur (or Thurs or Thu, the latter of which I use very infrequently)
Fri
Sat
Sun

Hope this helps!

gesc said:

Monday → Mon
Tuesday → Tue
Wednesday → Wed
Thursday → Thu
Friday → Fri
Saturday → Sat
Sunday → Sun

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Thursday" →Thur /Thurs ? Right?

Nevea said:

Thursday" →Thur /Thurs ? Right?

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I personally think it's neater and more consistent to keep the 3 letter abbreviation for Thu, like all the other days. The same for months: Jan, Feb, Mar...

If you are creating Excel columns for the days of the week, also means the columns will be the same size (width) without too much playing about.

I thought I'd add my two cents:

I'm a college student in Florida and we use this convention for abbreviating the days of the week:

M = Monday
T = Tuesday
W = Wednesday
R = Thursday
F = Friday
S = Saturday
U = Sunday (That's right, U for Sunday).

gesc said:

Monday → Mon
Tuesday → Tue
Wednesday → Wed
Thursday → Thu
Friday → Fri
Saturday → Sat
Sunday → Sun

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I think these 3-letter abbreviations are the most standard.

In airline schedules you will find LMXJVSD (if there's a flight every day )

syd

I'm a native of the USA and am 37 years old.
I don't ever remember seeing 'R' used as an abbreviation for Thursday. Single letter abbreviations are very uncommon, but the few places i've seen them, have only used Monday thru Friday, thus excluding the weekend days. In those instances, i have seen both 'M T W T F' and 'M T W H F' in use. When all are beside each other, it's okay since there's no ambiguity. But when a single letter is used without a context of other letters, then I only remember having seen 'H' used for Thursday, not 'R'. But i also repeat that i have very rarely seen only single letter abbreviations for days of the week. 3 letter abbreviation are used enuf that i believe almost everyone around me have seen them: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat. Also not that where I'm at (Kansas and Missouri), our weeks start with Sunday and end with Saturday. But on the job, some places change this around. Most i've experienced have used the normal Sunday thru Saturday week, but maybe 10% of places change that. My current job for instance is one of those 10% who used a different work week, in this case, they use Wednesday thru Tuesday, but this is not any more common than another choice, in my experience. I have seen Monday thru Sunday as the 2nd most popular week cycle, but Sunday thru Saturday is by far most common in the Midwest, where i am from. I estimate 90% of the time, our work week is Sunday-Saturday. maybe 5% of the time Monday thru Sunday is used. and maybe the other 5% of the time, any other week cycle is used. But that's only a rough guess from my experience, which may be different from the real statistics.

For days of the week, to be clear, if you can use 3 letter abbreviations, use that. It's rather common. If you must use one letter abbreviations, there's no real rule and i don't think it's done enuf to be able to claim that there's any sort of standard for that, except to say that the common standard is to use 3 letter abbreviations.

Wotcher said:

I thought I'd add my two cents:

I'm a college student in Florida and we use this convention for abbreviating the days of the week:

M = Monday
T = Tuesday
W = Wednesday
R = Thursday
F = Friday
S = Saturday
U = Sunday (That's right, U for Sunday).

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You are correct. If you want to use a single letter for each day of the week, the standardize version is: M, T, W, R, F, S and U.

Curious. I did a Google search for "calendar" images, which took me here:

https://www.google.cl/search?hl=es-...edr...0...1ac.1.60.img..0.17.1759.xg1LUDujIsA

And the first 15 calendars that I inspected with single letters for the days of the week used the S-M-T-W-T-F-S version. Without exception. For obvious reason, I stopped after the 15th.

CARJR45 said:

You are correct. If you want to use a single letter for each day of the week, the standardize version is: M, T, W, R, F, S and U.

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You shouldn't generalise too much.
Perhaps it is standard form in some places but I don't think this is true worldwide.
I have never seen R for Thursday nor U for Sunday and out of context I would have no idea which day they referred to.