32

I've been dealing with different regional settings (US, Canada and other locations in English, as well as other countries and languages), but I cannot get GNOME Shell Calendar to begin with Monday, instead of Sunday. I have even modified the en_US file in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ (line: first workday: 1). All without success. My question is: is it hard-coded in GNOME Shell or it can be changed?

Answers to this previous question doesn't apply to GNOME Shell.

Screenshot

Flimm
  • 41,766
Ed Villegas
  • 3,413

1 Answers1

38

To adjust this, change or add the following lines in the LC_TIME section in /usr/share/i18n/locales/<your_locale>:

week            7;19971130;5
first_weekday   2
first_workday   2

(first_weekday 2 sets Monday as the first day of the week, and first_workday 2 sets Monday as the first work day of the week.)

And then update the system:

sudo locale-gen

Then log out and log in again.

Flimm
  • 41,766
prometheus
  • 396
  • I made this change on my system, but it seems to have gotten wiped after an upgrade. To avoid that, I ended up making my own locale file, putting it in /usr/local/share/i18n/locales/, then running sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales. It was quite a process and there's a bunch more setup I haven't mentioned here. If anyone knows an easier way, I'm all ears. – wjandrea Feb 20 '22 at 00:57
  • I did that on Ubuntu 22 and it doesn't work. In /usr/share/i18n/locales/fr_BE I've set the same params as this post. In /etc/default/locale I have LC_TIME=fr_BE.UTF-8. I've updated the system and logged out. In the applet the week still starts on Sunday. – ThCollignon Mar 19 '23 at 07:40