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When clicking on the Clock applet (Clock version 2.26.0) in Gnome (Ubuntu Jaunty) a calendar is shown. Each week starts on Sunday, but I want Monday as starting day. How can I achieve this?
Peter Jaric
Posted 2010-06-06T17:38:29.043
Reputation: 1 756
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this depends on your locale.
you need to check LC_TIME change first_weekday from 1(sunday) to 2(monday)
i just googled and this seems quite a comprehensive guide:
Make a copy of your locale file in your home directory
cp /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US ~/en_US_modifiedcreate a directory "locales"
mkdir ~/localesopen up en_US_modified in an editor, search for the section called "LC_TIME"
look for the line
first_weekday 1Change the 1 to a 2
Save the file, exit your editor and go back to the terminal
Run this command which will create a directory full of new locale settings inside of the "locales" directory you made in your home directory:
localedef -c -i ~/en_US_modified -f UTF-8 ~/locales/en_US.utf8- Backup your old locale settings by going to /usr/lib/locale and changing the name of
en_US.utf8toen_US.utf8_ORIGINAL- Copy the new en_US.utf8 directory your created in your home directory in the subdir "locales" to
/usr/lib/locale- Restart your system
Reference: http://dunedin.lug.net.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=208155 ; reformatted for superuser by me
bubu
Posted 2010-06-06T17:38:29.043
Reputation: 9 283
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Just set LC_TIME to a locale that starts its week on monday. eg: LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
Make that change permanent by editing /etc/default/locale (or /etc/locale.conf on some distros)
The best way is to set your locale is on a per user setting, for example in gdm at login. If there is a specific need for more complex things, you can set the locale in /etc. Note that this will affect all users on the system.
Irgendwoanders
Posted 2010-06-06T17:38:29.043
Reputation: 151
+1 LC_TIME is the thing you should change to get different display of times and dates. LANG is the environment variable that defines the language of messages to display and should have nothing to do with times or dates. – Mikko Rantalainen – 2018-03-09T11:40:29.400
The fact that cal does not follow locale is by design (see man cal). Use ncal -b if you want the same thing with correct locale. – Mikko Rantalainen – 2018-03-09T11:43:29.197
+1 because this is the easy way. shouldn't we really set LANG? anyway, I tried several locales on ubuntu 12.10, including it_IT, and all result in cal to show the Sunday as first weekday. probably worth a bug report. – mariotomo – 2013-01-30T08:49:41.773
Wow... I'll see if I think it's worth it to go through that. If not, I'll mark your answer as accepted. – Peter Jaric – 2010-06-06T18:13:47.930
note that it will change ALL programs... unless, of course, you changed the applet run to "e.g. LC_ALL=en_US.cal appletname" and then you need to make clone of a new en_US clone with the necessary changes. ehm, actually i haven't been linux for ages. this brings back my memory when i was doing locale debugging for debian potato (that is yearS ago...) – bubu – 2010-06-06T18:27:27.990
1OMG. Sorry I lol'd on this one. 2010, desktop use. :D – Apache – 2010-06-06T18:58:39.320
@Shiki: I love Linux, I run versions of Ubuntu on all my computers (work and home) and nothing else, but things like this helps me avoid becoming a fanatic :) – Peter Jaric – 2010-06-06T21:10:29.570
@bubu: There's no problem for me if it changes all programs. Here in Sweden the week starts with Monday. – Peter Jaric – 2010-06-06T21:24:52.677
@snowlord - Thats not what I meant... but canonical should speed up those papercuts/usability improvements. – Apache – 2010-06-06T21:27:58.007