Rainy day and monday

what day was monday

What day was Monday is a date question wearing a weekday costume. Monday is the label. The date is a month-and-day stamp plus a year. Last Monday was the most recent date that carried that label in your zone. Next Monday is the next one. “Monday” without a week is a family of dates, not a single square.

If you have a week in mind, Monday is the first day of that week on an ISO planner and on many business diaries. On a United States wall calendar that prints Sunday in the first column, Monday is the second square of the row. The date does not change when the column changes. Only the picture of the week changes.

Rain on that date is weather. It is not a calendar field. A rainy Monday is still Monday. A dry Monday is still Monday. The civil day begins at midnight in the zone you are using, not at the first raindrop and not at sunrise. If you need the date of a particular Monday, name the week or name the month, then read the grid.

People also ask the question after a long weekend, when the weekday names have blurred. Count forward from a date you trust: if today is Wednesday the 10th, Monday was the 8th in that same week on a Monday-first planner, and it will be the 15th next. Arithmetic on the month-and-day is safer than memory of “it felt like Thursday.”

Mondays and rainy days as two clocks

Mondays and rainy days are often searched together because one is a weekday and the other is weather, and both have a reputation for low mood. The calendar can answer the Monday half. It cannot forecast rain. A planner that colours every Monday grey is making a joke, not a meteorological claim.

Rainy days and Mondays, as a pairing, do not create a special date. There is no official “rain day” that slides Monday to Tuesday. If a school closes for weather, that is a closure on a dated Monday, not a new weekday. Make-up days, if any, are extra squares the school adds later. They do not rewrite which date was Monday.

Monday: a weekday name that repeats every seven dates. A rainy day: a weather description for a dated square. A rainy Monday: both at once, still one date. The song title: a mood, not a public holiday.

If you are logging work, write the date. “Monday” in a notebook from an unknown week is a riddle. “Monday 12 January” is a fact. Rain can go in the notes. It should not replace the stamp.

Rainy Days and Mondays, the Carpenters

Rainy Days and Mondays is a 1971 song by the Carpenters, from the album titled Carpenters. Paul Williams wrote the lyrics and Roger Nichols wrote the music. The record is a pop song about feeling worn down, using rain and Monday as the picture, not as a calendar instruction. Searching “rainy days and mondays carpenters” or “rainy days and mondays the carpenters” is a music query. It does not change which date was Monday last week.

The B-side of the original single is a short track called Saturday, which is another weekday name used as a song title. That does not make Saturday a holiday either. Weekday names are cheap titles because everyone already owns the word. The civil week keeps its seven labels whether or not a chorus uses them.

Monday will still arrive if the sky is clear. The song never claimed it could cancel the day. Play the record on any day you like. The calendar will not mind. If you needed the date of a Monday, you needed a year and a week, not a harmonica line.