Days Of The Week

[brionon]

Did the Puritans or other christians ever attempt to changed the names of the days of the week ?

[woofgang]

I have a vague feeling that a religious sect used the names sabbath, first day, second day and so on but can't find any online evidence.

[Old_Jim]

The English names derive from German mythology and we've been using them for a very long time. Until fairly recently, the Catholic Church used to number the days rather than give them names. The Puritans were mainly concerned to contradict anything that the Catholic Church did - so anything different to Catholicism was good enough for them.

Sunday has been known as "The Lord's Day" since before the reformation any some Christian groups (notably the Lord's Day Observance Society) still use this term.

[jno]

I've found nothing to say so. The French revolutionaries instituted a 10-day week, I think, but the experiment was dropped after a decade or so.