On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:46 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:58 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:21 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> >> How do I get the Gnome clock to start the week on Monday? > >> > > >> > By fixing the locale definition in glibc. Really, this has been fixed by > >> > other distributions a long time ago, but I think the patch was lost on > >> > some upgrade we did to our glibc package a while ago. As you might know, > >> > upstream doesn't accept patches for things like locale bugs. Debian has > >> > patches for over 50 locales, that's why they switched to eglibc instead > >> > of glibc now. > >> > >> Yes, I've heard of the problems with glibc upstream. > >> > >> However, looking through the patches that Debian has they don't seem > >> to be related to first weekday at all :-( > >> > > > > They have had quite some weekday fixes for a while, but since they moved > > to eglibc instead of glibc, these fixes have been merged in the new > > upstream. > > I did make sure to look at the glibc sources rather than the eglibc sources. > > first_weekday and first_workday are both set to 2 which matches other > locales that I know uses Monday as first weekday as well. > > Given that the version of cal in Arch doesn't use locale, is there > some other tool that definately, without any doubt, uses locale so I > can double check. So far it looks like the Gnome clock applet is > broken, but I'd like to confirm, beyond any doubt, that the en_GB > locale is correct before I raise bugs. It appears this bug has been fixed upstream, but not correctly :) http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7068 I think you might want to check the last patch, and revert the change done to the en_GB locale. It seems first_weekday and first_workday are set relative to the week statement above it.
