[ILUG] the first day of the week?

[Pádraig Brady]

Ciaran Johnston wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>
>> old$ LC_TIME=en_IE.utf8 locale week-1stday first_weekday
>> 19971130
>> 1
>>
>> new$ LC_TIME=en_IE.utf8 locale week-1stday first_weekday
>> 19971130
>> 2
> 
> Check the contents of /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_IE
> 
> On a Debian Etch system, I have:
> 
> LC_TIME
> % copy "en_GB"
> <some unicode stuff for days of week etc>
> %  FIXME: found in CLDR
> first_weekday 2
> END LC_TIME
> 
> On a Fedora 9 box I have:
> 
> LC_TIME
> % copy "en_GB"
> <some unicode stuff for days of week etc>
> END LC_TIME
> 
> In other words, nothing specific to en_IE for first_weekday on Fedora.
> 
> Interestingly both files (en_IE on Fedora and on Debian) claim to be the
> same revision - 4.4 - and to have the same author and source. Is this
> another example of Debian "fixing" things without informing upstream?
> 
> What systems are you comparing?

Looks like you're right as upstream does not set first_weekday to 2 for en_IE.
In my examples above, old = fedora 8 and new = ubuntu 8.04

The plot thickens though as Ulrich Drepper seems to have changed en_GB to Tuesday?

http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/localedata/locales/en_GB?cvsroot=glibc

A few emails are in order.

cheers,
Pádraig.