[arch-general] Funny locale settings, Gnome versus command line

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:21 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> How do I get the Gnome clock to start the week on Monday?
>
> By fixing the locale definition in glibc. Really, this has been fixed by
> other distributions a long time ago, but I think the patch was lost on
> some upgrade we did to our glibc package a while ago. As you might know,
> upstream doesn't accept patches for things like locale bugs. Debian has
> patches for over 50 locales, that's why they switched to eglibc instead
> of glibc now.

Yes, I've heard of the problems with glibc upstream.

However, looking through the patches that Debian has they don't seem
to be related to first weekday at all :-(

/M

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