On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Thanks, I'll modify my locale file (again) and see what happens. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe
