GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 123447
Add an option to let the calendar start on monday
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Wide parts of the world use monday as the first day in the week. As I can see in the documantation of gtk.org, GtkCalendar can do so by setting up the right variable. It would be nice if someone could add a preference for this.
This is a bug which is fixed in GTK+ HEAD (will be in GTK+ 2.4, and so in GNOME 2.6). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87977 ***
I think it would be nice to have an option for the first day of week, regardless of the locale. The locale can be used to set the default value for that option. This bug is also known here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80940
Bart: why would we want this? I fail to see how it could be useful: people are used to having only one config (the one of their locale).
Well, I like using software in english, not in dutch, while I still want monday to be the first day of week. (I assume that setting the locale for the first day of week, means using the language of that locale... I hope that is correct?) Also, some companies prefer to use software in english instead of one of multiple official language, for example in Belgium, where french >< dutch is often a sensitive issue. I like to compare setting the first day of week to setting the keyboard layout. There is keyboard layout be-latin1, so it could be set depending on the locale, but I can still choose for an other layout. So I would say, making choices depending on the locale is good for the defaults, but it's always good to have the option to choose something else.
So, setting LC_MESSAGES and LC_TIME individually would fix your problem, right ? i.e. set LC_MESSAGES to the language you want the apps to display and LC_TIME to the locale whose time format you want to use ...
Mark, thanks for the hint. So the solution may be to add a preference option on the clock applet preferences, or on the language config, to set LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES separately. I don't think this currently exists, or have I overlooked something?
Have you verified that this works? What I'd suggest is that you log against gnome-control-center for a locale settings capplet which would allow you to configure the individual elements of your locale (if such a bug doesn't already exist)