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[Bug localedata/2527] Maybe first work day should be monday by default?


------- Additional Comments From samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org  2006-04-11 21:01 -------
Subject: Re:  Maybe first work day should be monday by default?

keld at dkuug dot dk, le Tue 11 Apr 2006 20:51:41 -0000, a écrit :
> 
> ------- Additional Comments From keld at dkuug dot dk  2006-04-11 20:51 -------
> Subject: Re:  Maybe first work day should be monday by default?
> 
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 03:08:29PM -0000, keld at dkuug dot dk wrote:
> > 
> > ------- Additional Comments From keld at dkuug dot dk  2006-04-10 15:08 -------
> > Subject: Re:  New: Maybe first work day should be monday by default?
> > 
> > On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 12:22:50AM -0000, samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org wrote:
> > > For now, first_workday is 1 by default, i.e. Sunday (since first day
> > > of the week system is 19971130, i.e. Sunday). This is probably wrong
> > > for many locales. At least fr_FR should be corrected into first_workday
> > > set to 2 (monday).
> > 
> > I don't know if this is correct wrti the software Sunday being 1
> > and Monday being 2, but if it is, I sincerely believe it is an
> > error in the software. Monday should be 1, and Sunday should be 0 or
> > Seven. This according both to the POSIX standard ISO/IEC 9945 and
> > to the ISO locale standard ISO/IEC TR 14652.
> 
> Looking at the text of 14652 it should not be correct to list the
> first_workday as 2 . In France, AFAIK, they start the week on Monday,
> and the first workday is Monday. That is, first_workday = 1.
> But it also then needs a correction for the week to begin on a Monday.

So "week" should be corrected too. But I wonder if "first_weekday" is
useful at all then.

Regards,
Samuel


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