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Bug 302143 - User should be able to select week start day (Monday/Sunday)
User should be able to select week start day (Monday/Sunday)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: clock
2.16.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 306855 314798 318648 328771 338424 400003 441578 450863 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-04-27 09:18 UTC by Per Thomas Jahr
Modified: 2009-10-15 06:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Per Thomas Jahr 2005-04-27 09:18:47 UTC
When I click on the Clock applet, a nice calendar pops up. Here in Norway we 
start the week on Monday and not on Sunday (as shown in the calendar). There 
should be an option to change this somewhere.



Other information:
Comment 1 Kjartan Maraas 2005-04-28 16:35:06 UTC
It should be doing that already if your locale is set correctly to norwegian.
This is deduced using nl_langinfo() or something similar if I'm not mistaken.
What are your locale settings?
Comment 2 Per Thomas Jahr 2005-04-28 17:03:58 UTC
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

I changed the language from US to Norwegian (with system-config-language in FC3) 
and the locale settings changed as well. Now the week starts on Monday. Thanks.

But what if I would like to have US texts and still have the week start on 
Monday? In Evolution I can to exactly that (there is an option where I can 
choose any day to the start the week on).
Comment 3 Jochen Eppler 2005-05-18 13:19:46 UTC
I have set LANG to de_DE.UTF-8@euro, but the week does NOT start
on monday. I am using gnome-applets 2.10.1.
Comment 4 Kjartan Maraas 2005-05-25 20:24:48 UTC
How about other programs that use glibc locale info, do they behave the same or
is this specific to the panel clock?
Comment 5 Jochen Eppler 2005-05-25 22:05:09 UTC
I tried it on the console using cal, which, to my knowledge, also uses
glibc locale info. This also reports weeks starting on sunday. I have
tested it with several locales. The only difference I get is the language,
not the order of the weekdays
Comment 6 Olav Vitters 2005-05-25 22:57:06 UTC
Please paste the output of the 'locale' command (command line app).
Comment 7 Jochen Eppler 2005-05-25 23:16:36 UTC
Here it comes...

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
LC_CTYPE=C
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_ALL=

hope this helps...
Comment 8 Vincent Untz 2005-05-31 11:26:02 UTC
Jochen: what version of GTK+ are you running?

AFAIK, patch in bug #163842 should have fixed this.
Comment 9 Jochen Eppler 2005-05-31 11:48:42 UTC
I am using the libgtk2.0 version 2.6.7 from ubuntu breezy
Comment 10 Vincent Untz 2005-05-31 12:47:44 UTC
Oh, I hadn't seen comment #5. Are you running a system with glibc or another
system? This could explain it...

If that's the case, then I really do think that's something that should be done
at the libc level.
Comment 11 Jochen Eppler 2005-05-31 13:33:25 UTC
Yes, I am using glibc. Maybe I should file a bug against glibc?
Comment 12 Vincent Untz 2005-06-08 17:10:54 UTC
Jochen: If you set LANG and LC_ALL to de_DE.UTF-8, does the week start on
sunday? If so, then you should indeed file a bug against glibc.
Comment 13 Jon Mitchell 2005-06-13 11:04:09 UTC
*** Bug 306855 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 Sebastien Bacher 2005-09-10 14:00:32 UTC
*** Bug 314798 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Sebastien Bacher 2005-10-12 08:58:48 UTC
*** Bug 318648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Sebastien Bacher 2006-02-03 09:56:04 UTC
*** Bug 328771 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Vincent Untz 2006-04-14 06:33:59 UTC
*** Bug 338424 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 18 Christian Kirbach 2006-09-02 00:04:39 UTC
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!
Comment 19 Per Thomas Jahr 2006-09-04 07:16:35 UTC
I think this bug should be reopened.

What I asked for when I opened this issue, was the possibility to choose the start day for weeks independently of the language and locale I use. F.ex. I like to have English (USA) as language, but still have weeks that starts on Mondays.

Other bugs should be stated in their own reports.
Comment 20 kbwerf 2006-12-13 20:35:33 UTC
I Feel the exact way about it as Per Thomas. What about an american living in sweden, should he have to use swedish in the menus and/or evolution if he wants to use the same calendar as everyone else here?
Comment 21 Sebastien Bacher 2006-12-14 11:55:53 UTC
Ubuntu bug about that: https://launchpad.net/products/gnome-panel/+bug/48501
Comment 22 Stefan Sauer (gstreamer, gtkdoc dev) 2006-12-14 15:38:47 UTC
I can also confirm that the applet follows the locale, but can second that this is not neccesarily what the user wants. I am german, but use english locale as most translations are confusing for me. For the callendar I still would like to override my starting weekday.
Comment 23 Havard Bjastad 2007-01-15 19:12:26 UTC
More on this topic: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360101
Comment 24 Vincent Untz 2007-01-15 19:51:50 UTC
Wow, I hadn't seen this bug is still alive.

Pasting what I put in bug 360101:

There are three solutions:

 + you can change your locale setting for LC_TIME
 + you can open a bug against GTK+ to ask for this for the GtkCalendar widgets
(they might close it as WONTFIX, though)
 + you can wait for http://live.gnome.org/LocaleProject

Right now, there is really nothing we can do in the clock applet to fix this. So I'm closing the bug, but feel free to open it again if GTK+ maintainers agree that fixing GtkCalendar is the right way to do this.
Comment 25 Olav Vitters 2007-01-23 23:14:48 UTC
*** Bug 400003 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 26 Vincent Untz 2007-05-27 18:51:37 UTC
*** Bug 441578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 27 Vincent Untz 2007-06-26 09:53:16 UTC
*** Bug 450863 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 28 Mike 2009-10-15 06:12:20 UTC
I don't know what the circumstances were back in 2007 when this bug was last commented on, but looking at every other calendar product on my computer, they all allow the date to be set independently from the locale variable.

This makes sense to me, and I'd suggest reopening this bug, or forwarding it to the GTK+ people, or whatever it takes to get this promoted. 

Just judging by the number of duplicates seems to be a good indication that this ought to be fixed, and that people are looking for this feature. There's even a discussion of it on the ubuntuforums, where people are expecting it to either be tied in with evolution's calendar (which allows this setting), or to have its own setting: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=273967