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Description of problem: This problem shows up in the gtk calendar widget, among others, this widget uses the locale's first_weekday to determine the first weekday for the calendar. This shows Sunday as the first day of the week, but UK calendars, diaries and so on always show Monday as the first day of the week (indeed, it is not uncommon in diaries to run Saturday and Sunday together into a single entry at the end of the week. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glibc-2.6-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Look at a GTK calendar widget, note that Monday is not the first day of the week. 2. Alternatively, note that "locale first_weekday" reports 1, not 2. Actual results: The first day of the week is shown as Sunday Expected results: The first day of the week should be Monday for en_GB. Additional info: At first sight I thought this was just an annoyance. I can put up with Sunday being the first day of the week can't I? Well, no, I can't. It's very difficult to switch to a calendar format that is different to every calendar and every diary you've seen all your life. It's awkward; it's like trying to read mirror writing, not hard, but awkward and occasionally very confusing.
Changed in upstream cvs.
In glibc-2.6.90-17 in rawhide.
The fix http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/localedata/locales/en_GB.diff?r1=1.14&r2=1.15&cvsroot=glibc was wrong. As said by the original reporter, it should be: first_weekday 2 first_workday 2
Changed upstream. Will show up in rawhide at some point.