Explanation:
Two days ago, I biked my first outdoor imperial century (AKA over 100 miles), but didn’t immediately take a picture of my watch displaying the data as I usually do.
Today, I tried to access it and found out that the watch deletes all data weekly and considers Sunday the first day of the week.
What it has to do with Christianity:
It makes absolutely no sense to consider Sunday the first day of the week rather than Monday. Unless you follow stupid standards established by people who consider the last day of the weekEND holy and thus want to give it pride of place as the starting day rather than the final day of the week.
While it has nothing to do with that (US uses Sunday as first day, Europe uses Monday as first day) it just resets weekly but the data is still there. You need to connect it to its app, maybe even Gadgetbridge if you’re lucky (don’t know what watch is yours). Also I’m pretty sure it has an option to change the first day of the week (usually in the app).
what? Nope you are wrong. Monday is the first day of the week all over Europe. Blame Americans not christians, at least this time.
Monday is the first day of the week all over Europe
I know.
Blame Americans not christians, at least this time.
I blame American (or possibly English) Christians, since the belief that Sundays are holy is the reason for the Christians in charge at the time implementing that standard.
This is Wear OS, right? The Google smartwatch OS. That’s the company that made it a business to aggregate all the data in their cloud so people wouldn’t leave their services for convenience alone.
And you’re telling me that you think that the only way to get data off that clock is to take a picture of it before Sunday?
That’s not so much a Christian thing as a US thing as far as I know. In most European countries Monday is considered the first day of the week.
It’s also a Muslim and a Jewish thing. Their Sabbath is on Saturday.
And why is it a US thing? Because of Christianity.
Btw, I live in a European country and the watch is by a Korean company, so following US standards is doubly ridiculous IMO…
How is it because of Christianity? God rested on the seventh day, not on the first.
It only makes sense for Judaism where the Sabbath is on Saturday.God rested on the seventh day, which was the Sabbath, so Saturday.
After the resurrection of Jesus, which was on a Sunday, Sunday became an important day for Christianity. This was the reason why the Roman Emperor Constantine made Sunday a resting day. It was still the first day of the week, though.
In the 20th century, it was decided (only for secular/economic reasons) to keep the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, as a unit and call it the end of the week, making Monday the first day of the week.
Europe was mostly Christian, too?
The US are a bunch of religious weirdos though, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they do that for religious reasons.
This is unintentionally funny:
I imagine you sitting in front of your clock, screaming “those damn christians”.
I would have posted something like “I did not understand the data management of my clock and sadly lost my most valuable dataset”. Maybe sweep in front of your own door before blaming your neighbors.
Hold up, why does the watch delete the data weekly? Surely this is the actual problem.
True, but the fact that it does so on Sundays rather than Mondays is the reason why I didn’t retrieve my data in time by checking today.
Workouts this week being 0 doesn’t mean that the data isn’t there, it’s just giving you a summary for the ‘calendar’ week.
You should be able to find the activity still. You should also be able to change when the start of the week is. (It’s an option you see everywhere)
If you look at the bottom you’ll notice the watch has correctly identified you as operating in beta mode. You should practice mindfulness to be more aware of what’s going on around you e.g. your watch’s settings.
Sounds more like a bad watch or setting it up badly. Why would it delete anything anyways before backing it up on secondary media or in general?
Workouts are usually .gpx files which are kB in size. You cannot tell me there is no space on the watch for that. Mine stores all workouts I have ever done.
That’s why you always go through all the settings first thing, to find weirdness like that.
Did you read the manual of the watch before you started using it?
When I got the watch several years ago, yes, long before I got an outdoor bike and started recording workouts with it six months ago.
Does it mention that as far as this watch is concerned the week starts from Sunday?
I don’t remember. Even if it does, I doubt that I considered it significant enough to remember at the time, given that I had no plans for using the watch to record workouts at the time 🤷🏻
