Solved LXPanel and start of a week

[abishai]

I installed x11/lxpanel and for digital clock plugin (clock + calendar) I have a calendar with Sunday as a start day. I try to set it to Monday. There are no specific options in LXPanel.

Here is source code: http://git.lxde.org/gitweb/?p=lxde/...=0580e5f354d5021922c9f6587a9da939870986ce#l97

So, this is a standard GTK calendar and GTK should pick calendar options from locale settings according API documentation.

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk2/stable/GtkCalendar.html

GTK_CALENDAR_WEEK_START_MONDAY
Since GTK+ 2.4, this option is deprecated and ignored by GTK+. The information on which day the calendar week starts is derived from the locale.

So, my question is: is this option available for locale?

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

 

[talsamon]

This is OT: I think, which programmer had the sick idea "the week starts on Sunday"?

 

[kpa]

This is OT: I think, which programmer had the sick idea "the week starts on sunday" ?

It's a much more complicated issue than you think:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday#Position_in_the_week

 

[abishai]

But this is pure localization issue: we have a default widget and common framework (GTK). Frameworks are all about 'don't think about details, I'll make everything for you', that's why there are no settings in LXPanel.
Here is how the same matter resolved in Linux world: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/L...week_to_start_from_Monday_instead_of_Sunday-1 But I have no /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US on my FreeBSD installation.

 

[talsamon]

Perhaps this /compat/linux/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US??

 

[abishai]

en_GB locale does the trick.