GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 770139
Option to set the week to start on Sunday in built-in calendar
Last modified: 2018-01-24 15:16:21 UTC
Some religious as well as regional calendars (e.g.: the Japanese calendar) start the week with Sunday as opposed to Monday. I think that there should be an option in the gnome-tweak-tool to make it so that the weeks are displayed as starting on Sunday in the built-in calendar accessible from the top-bar. This can already be done manually, but an option in the GUI would be nice. I already filed a request for this here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1614925 But thought I should also do so upstream.
How do you do it manually?
(In reply to Jeremy Bicha from comment #1) > How do you do it manually? Here are two ways: - https://askubuntu.com/a/6457/364819 - https://askubuntu.com/a/201391/364819
The second option you suggested simply won't work. GNOME Tweak Tool is not going to hack on system files like that. The first option is not very practical. You could set your locale to LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 if you want the first day of the week to be Sunday. The problem is that not only changes the first day of the week to Sunday but it also makes dates and times to be in United States English. If you used French, you could set it to fr_CA.UTF-8 for Sunday or fr_FR.UTF-8 for Monday. To see what I'm talking about, try this on Ubuntu: sudo apt install language-pack-fr LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8 gnome-calendar I want options in Tweak Tool to work for all languages and regions and this proposal currently does not.
(In reply to Jeremy Bicha from comment #3) > The second option you suggested simply won't work. GNOME Tweak Tool is not > going to hack on system files like that. > > The first option is not very practical. > > You could set your locale to LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 if you want the first day > of the week to be Sunday. The problem is that not only changes the first day > of the week to Sunday but it also makes dates and times to be in United > States English. > > If you used French, you could set it to fr_CA.UTF-8 for Sunday or > fr_FR.UTF-8 for Monday. To see what I'm talking about, try this on Ubuntu: > > sudo apt install language-pack-fr > LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8 gnome-calendar > > I want options in Tweak Tool to work for all languages and regions and this > proposal currently does not. I wasn't suggesting you do it that way, you just asked me how to do it manually, so I gave two 'manual' ways that I was aware of. Isn't it up to the developers to decide how to do this in the backend?
What I'm saying is that this proposal doesn't look possible right now in Tweak Tool. Maybe you could file a bug with gnome-calendar to ask them to allow the first day of the week to be overridden. And whatever is done in gnome-calendar could be done in gnome-shell too.
(In reply to Jeremy Bicha from comment #5) > What I'm saying is that this proposal doesn't look possible right now in > Tweak Tool. > > Maybe you could file a bug with gnome-calendar to ask them to allow the > first day of the week to be overridden. And whatever is done in > gnome-calendar could be done in gnome-shell too. Ok, I have filled a report (bug #783792) with gnome-calendar.
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