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

[Jan de Groot]

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.