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

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:46 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> I did make sure to look at the glibc sources rather than the eglibc sources.
>>
>> first_weekday and first_workday are both set to 2 which matches other
>> locales that I know uses Monday as first weekday as well.
>>
>> Given that the version of cal in Arch doesn't use locale, is there
>> some other tool that definately, without any doubt, uses locale so I
>> can double check.  So far it looks like the Gnome clock applet is
>> broken, but I'd like to confirm, beyond any doubt, that the en_GB
>> locale is correct before I raise bugs.
>
> It appears this bug has been fixed upstream, but not correctly :)
>
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7068
>
> I think you might want to check the last patch, and revert the change
> done to the en_GB locale. It seems first_weekday and first_workday are
> set relative to the week statement above it.

Thanks, I'll modify my locale file (again) and see what happens.

/M

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