Gnome panel clock

Rodd Clarkson rodd at clarkson.id.au
Fri Jan 20 23:00:07 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 19:11 +1030, n0dalus wrote:
> On 1/20/06, Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > It's following ISO 8601, if that's any consolation to you.
> >
> > The same standard defines such things as which week in a year you mean
> > if you write "01".  FWIW, it's the week with the year's first Thursday
> > in it.  Is this standard painfully weird?  You decide!  Might we not
> > want to follow it very strictly... well, yes, it'd probably be useful to
> > make try to use what's normal in your country, as opposed to the arcana
> > of ISO.  But that's really hard, as it turns out, which is why the ISO
> > standard seems so very awkward in the first place.
> >
> 
> Mine starts on a Sunday here. Is there a reason my gnome applet isn't
> following the standard? I thought this was to do with my locale
> (Australia).

Strange, I'm in Australia (Melbourne) and mine starts on a Monday.


R.
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