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[Bug localedata/2527] Maybe first work day should be monday by default?
- From: "samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 11 Apr 2006 21:01:07 -0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/2527] Maybe first work day should be monday by default?
- References: <20060408002250.2527.samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
------- 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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