Gnome panel clock

[David Nielsen]

fre, 20 01 2006 kl. 05:35 -0800, skrev David Boles:
> David Nielsen wrote:
> > fre, 20 01 2006 kl. 18:13 +1030, skrev n0dalus:
> >> On 1/20/06, David Boles <dgboles at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>> I was asked why the GNOME panel clock calendar displays weeks that begin with
> >>> Monday.
> >>>
> >>> The other questions are. Can it be changed to begin with Sunday? And, of
> >>> course if possible, how to change it? If not, why not?
> >> I could be wrong, but I think it uses the system locale to determine
> >> what day the week starts on.
> > 
> > You'd be right, provided the application actually reads that bit of
> > information. Which leaves me in the situation where the clock applet
> > says the first day of the week is Sunday and Evolution Calendar says in
> > Monday - in the same session mind you. The worst bit is that for once
> > Evolution is right, in Denmark Monday is the first day of the week. 
> > 
> > I think this insanity warrents a bugreport.
> > 
> > David *I hate mondays* Nielsen
> 
> That 'other desktop', the one that starts with a 'K', starts the week with a
> Monday for me also. But it can be changed. I wonder why, or how, it can be
> changed in GNOME?

Because this is and should be dependant on the locale setting - it's by
far the best way to handle getting the correct settings for an given
country. Rely on already established functionality rather than
reinventing the wheel, although that seems to be the trademark of that
other desktop.

Oh and please don't cc me I'm on the list, although for some reason my
mails to -test/-devel don't appear in my mailbox, they are in the
archives though. I'm guessing Evolution is suffering from development
syndrome atm.

- David
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