HOWTO: Set Gnome Calendar First Day of Week

[artm]

see also http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...12#post6798112 for a solution without editing package files.

[pmorch]

see also http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...12#post6798112 for a solution without editing package files.

Thanks, artm, works perfectly. And avoids messing with files that are overridden by apt-get upgrade later. Just grand.

[nico80]

Thank you very much!

Having Sunday as first day was really annoying.

I'm actually using Fedora, but it works the same, only little thing I had to change is the locale-gen call (as it is an Ubuntu-specific command) with:

sudo localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF-8

[smiletobehappy]

Thank You very much!
Very helpful tutorial, works perfectly with Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty.

[XCan]

I had seen bunch of other ways to do this, but they all imposed some locale errors in especially Python scripts. This has so far worked wonderful, thanks!

[petike]

It works perfectly!

Great article - "easy", "fast" and "reliable".

[kevinguillorytraining]

Very useful. Where I can get other days code? i.e. Friday and Saturday.

[drs305]

Very useful. Where I can get other days code? i.e. Friday and Saturday.

For the US, Friday should be 6 and Saturday 7. I don't know of a listing, so you would just have to experiment. Since I wrote this guide it would seem there are probably other ways to set the DOW.

For instance, Evolution's start day can now be set with gconf-editor:

gconf-editor /apps/evolution/calendar/display/week_start_day

In Evolution, Sunday is 0 and Saturday is 6.

[gtrdp]

great, this is what i'm looking for exactly
thanks

[drs305]

Well, I'm a bit surprised that 2 1/2 years later this fix is still required, but I'm glad it worked for you.