Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#21989 closed Bug (fixed)
AU locale has incorrect Day Of Week
Reported by: | Russell Keith-Magee | Owned by: | Nathan Smith |
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Component: | Internationalization | Version: | 1.6 |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Accepted | |
Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | yes | UI/UX: | no |
Description
The newly added AU locale sets FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK to Monday. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK is primarily used to render calendars, and calendars in AU almost universally start weeks with Sunday.
Opening this as a ticket rather than just fixing it because of the inevitable backlash.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 11 years ago
comment:2 by , 11 years ago
Well, I can't say that's been my experience.
I present as evidence:
- The Unicode CLDR project: http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/supplemental/territory_language_information.html
- The default settings for the AU locale on Apple OSX
- TimeAndDate.com's calendar generator: http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/generate.html
- This Vox Pops on the Courier Mail's website: http://blogs.news.com.au/couriermail/parenting/index.php/couriermail/comments/so_which_day_is_the_first_day_of_the_week
- All except one commercially purchased calendars around my house, including this year's Australian Geographic "Frogs" wall calendar
The data I can find to supporting Australia using Monday as the first day of the week are:
- The fact that Australia is officially a signatory/adopter to ISO 8601 (as AS ISO 8601-2007) which mandates Monday as start of week.
- Occasional vox pop opinions calling for Monday because it's more convenient or "less religious".
- Some Apple support forums where people are asking how to set monday as first day of the week in Australia
- One calendar in my house - however, "week starting Monday" was a specific purchase requirement (on advice from a school psychologist).
comment:3 by , 11 years ago
Owner: | changed from | to
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Status: | new → assigned |
comment:4 by , 11 years ago
Pull Request: https://github.com/django/django/pull/2430
ISO 8601 does say Monday is the start of the week for Australia, but if you decide you would like to have it be Sunday, here is a pull request for that.
comment:5 by , 11 years ago
Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | assigned → closed |
In my experience (state of Victoria), calendars are usually printed with Monday as the first column.