Under the Australian locale, the first day of the week appears as Sunday rather than Monday, which is incorrect. To change it:
- check which locale is running, using the locale command (ie en_AU)
- sudo vi /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_AU and change first_weekday to 2
- regenerate the locale using sudo locale-gen
- get the calendar to reload using killall gnome-panel
In another post, I also show how to automate this, so it doesn’t get reset by Ubuntu’s automatic updates.
See also:
Nice tip. Thanks.
Comment by Jeremy — 14 February 2008 @ 18:34
Thanks, works great.
Comment by andrek — 1 April 2008 @ 04:09
You need to change week description instead:
% Week description, consists of three fields:
% 1. Number of days in a week.
% 2. Gregorian date that is a first weekday (19971130 for Sunday, 19971201 for Monday).
% 3. The weekday number to be contained in the first week of the year.
%
% ISO 8601 conforming applications should use the values 7, 19971201 (a
% Monday), and 4 (Thursday), respectively.
week 7;19971201;4
Comment by Volodymyr Lisivka — 15 May 2008 @ 23:10
Thanks a lot!
Comment by Denis — 17 October 2008 @ 17:19
Volodymyr – I notice that “week description” is only used in a one locale (uk_UA Ukrainian) on Ubuntu. I’ll have a play with adding it to the Australian locale, and update this page.
Comment by Sonia — 13 November 2008 @ 17:31
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Thanks a lot! It’s work for me. Great advise.
Comment by Vaclav — 16 November 2009 @ 23:04
No worries. See also http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/script-to-correct-first-day-of-week-in-en_au-locale/ for how to automate this.
Comment by Sonia — 17 November 2009 @ 07:21