Today I have “upgraded” friends lap top from Window$ to Ubuntu Mate 18.04 and after finishing whole process and showing off new system, I have been little bit embarrassed. I could not explain why since we are not in USA, Sunday is selected as first day of week. Worse is that there is no easy way to fix it.
I know that Rammstein said that “We’re all living in Amerika” , but please… Can we please have toggle to fix this?
Now I can not unsee it ( previously newer bothered me)
Other issue was that beta version does not have installed NPT (time does not synchronize with Internet) , but it may get fixed in final release.
Kind regards and thank you
By historical convention, Sunday is the first day of the week in all Christian/english speaking countries, I believe. Though, I am happy to stand corrected.
In any event, as I understand it, Monday is the international standard first day of the week. Though, I do accept that, in logical terms, this is somewhat arbitary and is probably based on the brute fact of international english being the primary language of global commerce and, in English speaking countries, Monday being the first working day of the week.
Monday is the first day of the week in Europe. See: http://chartsbin.com/view/41671
I have lived in Europe , and now Australia, and Monday was always first day. I am not religious , but how I understand God created world and then rested on Sunday? I have impression that is why everyone does not work on Sunday.
Either way would be nice to have choice. Android and even Window$ have option to tick it to change.
Kind regards,
May I ask where you're seeing that "first day" mention?
It has never occurred to me that this could be a problem.
My settings (French Locale) seem to show Monday as being the first day...
I found this workaround / solution for setting the first day of week: https://askubuntu.com/questions/6016/how-to-set-monday-as-the-first-day-of-the-week-in-gnome-calendar-applet
The supported locales are listed in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED (from here: https://wiki.debian.org/Locale#First_day_of_week)
You may edit the file /etc/default/locale and set:
LC_TIME="en_AU.utf8"
Save the file, log out and log in again.
Alternatively (suppose this does the same):
Open Control Center and click the Language Support.
Open the Regional Formats tab and select the correct format from the combo.
You may apply the settings system wide by clicking the Apply System-Wide button.
Don’t forget to log out and log in again.
Let us know if this fixes the issue.
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