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shadowhand

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From: MN, USA

Registered: 2004-02-19

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Fix for Gnome or Xfce calendar "First Day of Week"

For those of you that are having issues with the first day of the week appearing as Monday instead of Sunday:

Edit /usr/share/i18n/locales/LOCALE (where LOCALE is the locale you use)
Look for a line that starts with this: LC_TIME
Right after that line, add this: first_weekday 1

This may require a reboot to take effect, but it should make xfcalendar, gnome-calendar, and orage all display Sunday as the first day of the week, instead of Monday.

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Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: Fix for Gnome or Xfce calendar "First Day of Week"

Monday IS the first day of the week!

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tyme

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From: PA

Registered: 2003-06-12

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Re: Fix for Gnome or Xfce calendar "First Day of Week"

Monday IS the first day of the week!

yes, but we "americans" (er, US citizens) prefer to start it on sunday!  something about getting drunk saturday and wanting a fresh start on sunday...i dunno.  i got drunk and forgot. 

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Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: Fix for Gnome or Xfce calendar "First Day of Week"

It's the OSS philosophie to give the user the choice over the whole system. Everyone is free to start his/her week on whenever he/she wants to - I'm going to start mine on saturday. Two free days are perfect to start a new week!  8)

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lz3060

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Registered: 2006-09-15

Posts: 35

Re: Fix for Gnome or Xfce calendar "First Day of Week"

I've been trying to get my weeks started on Monday for probably 2 years now -- nothing works, including the solution described here.

Any suggestions?

lessthanjake

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From: Norway

Registered: 2005-11-09

Posts: 319

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Re: Fix for Gnome or Xfce calendar "First Day of Week"

I have written a wiki entry about this some time ago: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cha … f_the_week