GNOME Common

Unable to change the gnome clock applet to make the week start on monday

Asked by Rodrigo Donado

Hi:
after reading manual faqs and search google I came arround this recipy:
     $ sudo cp /usr/share/i18n/locales/es_ES /usr/share/i18n/locales/es_ES.bak
     $ sudo gedit /usr/share/i18n/locales/es_ES
Change:
     LC_TIME
     abday "<U0064><U006F><U006D>";"<U006C><U0075><U006E>";/
for:
     LC_TIME
     first_weekday 2
     first_workday 2
     abday "<U0064><U006F><U006D>";"<U006C><U0075><U006E>";/
save and do:
     $ sudo locale-gen
restart, and it should work,

well for me after doing the process it did not work, the clock week starts with sunday.

Any help would be apreciated

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Best Istvan Szekeres (szekeres) said : 		#1

Does the locale without your modification work in command line?
E.g in a terminal:

[using the "C"] locale I get:

$ cal
      May 2007
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
       1 2 3 4 5
 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31

Using hungarian locale I get:

$ LANG=hu_HU.utf8 cal
     május 2007
h k sz cs p sz v
    1 2 3 4 5 6
 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31

As you can see the correct first day of week was displayed for me. Could you check it with your locale?
If you get an output like "cal: setlocale: No such file or directory" it means that your system has a problem with the selected locale.

If this works in the command line, you have to check whether the panel runs with the correct locale.

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Rodrigo Donado (frezeeer) said : 		#2

Thanks Istvan Szekeres, that solved my question.