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I tried to follow the instructions on this post, but it did not work for me, what I'm doing wrong? Here's my local file in /etc/default/locale

#  File generated by update-locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
Michael
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1 Answers1

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  • To find out, which locale file is Ubuntu using right now:

    locale

The output in my case: 

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

That means, that my locale is en_US, settings for this locale are saved in file en_us in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ directory.

  • Make a backup of the file:
    sudo cp /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US.bak

  • Edit the en_US file and change first_weekday from 1 (Sunday) to 2
    (Monday):
    sudo nano /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US

  • Then generate locale files:
    sudo locale-gen

  • Login and logout to apply changes:
    gnome-session-quit

Credits: Change first day of week to Monday on Ubuntu GNOME calendar

singrium
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  • Thanks, this solution works. Just curious, why by changing to LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" did not work? It seems overwritten somehow. – Michael Nov 29 '18 at 11:40
  • Glad it worked for you. I am not sure but I think the configuration file has been changed: in the old version, just changing LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" would do the thing, but in the new version, the structure of the file has been changed so , may be, changing that line would not have an effect. – singrium Nov 29 '18 at 12:34