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langpack-locales package

en_AU locale: first day of week incorrect

Bug #192507 reported by Sonia Hamilton
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Wishlist
Unassigned
langpack-locales (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

* sudo vi /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_AU
* change first_weekday to 2
* regenerate the locale using sudo locale-gen
* get the calendar to reload using killall gnome-panel
* first day of week now displays correctly, as Monday

It seems to be a bone of contention in English language speaking locations (eg bugs 17214, 16216, 16168, 23600, 2098, 31814) as to which day of the week is the first day of the week. In Australia the majority of the calendars are printed with Monday as the first day of the week, though Sunday occasionally appears (often in calendars printed overseas). http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html#date seems to confirm Monday as the first day of week.

However, as this seems to be a matter of personal/religious preference, why not solve this bug correctly by allowing the *user* to easily change the first day of week (by adding a right-click option, etc)? Editing the locale information works for me, but it's not going to work for my mother.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Adding gnome-panel task for the wishlist part of making first day of week configurable.

Changed in langpack-locales:
assignee: nobody → pitti
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in gnome-panel:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

I just talked to some Australians who said that they consider Sunday the start of week. So let's rather make this configurable in the panel.

Changed in langpack-locales:
status: Fix Committed → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

there is already other gnome-panel bugs about similar issue, closing this one

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package langpack-locales - 2.7.9-1

---------------
langpack-locales (2.7.9-1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Synchronize to locales data from glibc 2.7-9.
    - Now includes pl_PL_dateformat.patch, drop patch.
    - Fixes pt_PT monetary decimal point. (LP: #111791)
    - Fixes pl_PL date format. (LP: #184405)
    - Adds AM/PM for es_VE. (LP: #119645)
  * Tag our remaining patches.
  * Add debian/patches/en_IE-am_pm.patch: Add AM/PM definition for en_IE.
    (LP: #199899)
  * Add debian/patches/eo_US.patch: Add eo_US locale, thanks to David
    Mandelberg. (LP: #1918)
  * Add debian/patches/es-am_pm.patch: Add AM/PM defintion for es_ES
    (LP: #51255) and es_MX (LP: #106381)
  * Add debian/patches/es_CR-first-weekday.patch: Fix first weekday and
    workday for es_CR. (LP: #149007)
  * Add debian/patches/en_AU-first-weekday.patch: Fix first weekday and
    workday for en_AU. (LP: #192507)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:10:48 +0100

Changed in langpack-locales:
status: Won't Fix → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Sonia Hamilton (sonia) wrote : Re: [Bug 192507] Re: en_AU locale: first day of week incorrect

Thanks, that was my suggestion - make it configurable in panel. Sonia.

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:20:26 -0000, "Martin Pitt"
<email address hidden> said:
> I just talked to some Australians who said that they consider Sunday the
> start of week. So let's rather make this configurable in the panel.
>
> ** Changed in: langpack-locales (Ubuntu)
> Status: Fix Committed => Won't Fix
>
> --
> en_AU locale: first day of week incorrect
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192507
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> of the bug.

Thanks,

--
Sonia Hamilton

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