[ILUG] the first day of the week?

[Ciaran Johnston]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Ciaran Johnston wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> As the following script shows, the locale for IE on linux
>>> has Sunday as the first day of the week. I always think
>>> of Sunday as the last day and the UK locale concurs.
>>> Where could I lookup the "right" answer?
>>
>> ISO 8601:2004 could be a good place to start:
>>
>> http://www.iso.org/iso/support/faqs/faqs_widely_used_standards/widely_used_standards_other/date_and_time_format.htm
>>
>> zipped PDF:
>>
>> http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink/4021199/ISO_8601_2004_E.zip?func=doc.Fetch&nodeid=4021199
>>
>> Table 2 — Calendar days
>> Ordinal day number in
>> the week Calendar day name
>> 1 Monday
>> 2 Tuesday
>> 3 Wednesday
>> 4 Thursday
>> 5 Friday
>> 6 Saturday
>> 7 Sunday
>
> That standard is separate to locales though.

Indeed - I should RTFQ before responding in future ... :/