Re: FC7 clock applet start-of-week question

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on 8/21/2007 4:22 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 13:52 -0700, David Boles wrote:
> 
>> on 8/21/2007 11:49 AM, Kam Leo wrote:
>>> On 8/21/07, David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> on 8/21/2007 9:30 AM, Mark C. Allman wrote:
>>>>> I'm running gnome, and the only three "clock preferences" are "show
>>>>> seconds," "show data," and "use UTC."  There must be some way to do
>>>>> this.....
>>>> The day of the week that the calendar displays is determined by your
>>>> locale setting. If your locale setting is correct and you still want, I
>>>> assume that you do  ;-)  , your week to start with Sunday then go here.
>>>>
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/yr7ups
>>>> http://norman.walsh.name/2006/01/26/weekstart
>>>>
>>>> This user is using Ubuntu but the same applies to GNOME in Fedora.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>  David
>>> There is a control to change locale, currency, first day of week, and
>>> date in KDE. I cannot find such a control/applet in Gnome. Where is
>>> it? Does Gnome use language, e.g. English (USA), as the key for
>>> determining how to display numbers, dates, currency, etc.?
>>
>> Yes. GNOME uses the locale or at least it used to. I had this problem
>> quite a while ago and I fixed mine like this. That problem now no longer
>> exists for me. I do not know of any control other than selecting the
>> proper locale or editing the file as it says in the link. I also do not
>> recall having to change as much
>>
>> This line in my en_US (Fedora 8) is not like his example either. Mine reads:
>>
>> 7;19671130;7
>>
>> And my calendar starts with Sunday.
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> 
> 
> I have several Fedora 7 systems, all have the "week" value
> in /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US of
>         week    7;19971130;7
                      ^
A typo? The file will be there even if it is not used. But the question is
actually if it is the one being used. See below.


> and one has the left-most calendar column as Saturday and another has
> the left-most column as Sunday.  I'd think that if this controlled the
> applet display then everyone who installed Fedora 7 and selected the
> "EN_US" locale would display the same calendar format.

You are sure that the locale setting *is* en_US on all of the machines
that have the wrong calendar display?

System > Administration > Language > (root's password) > English (USA)

-- 

  David



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