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

[Jan de Groot]

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:58 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> 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 :-(
> 

They have had quite some weekday fixes for a while, but since they moved
to eglibc instead of glibc, these fixes have been merged in the new
upstream.