Installing Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.03 (what a job)

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In the western world, I think the US is the exception. Our week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday. I believe that it is something mentioned in the bible, we rest on the last day of the week. Our shops were also closed on Sunday some decades ago. In my youth we had one shop in our town that had a Jewish owner. This shop was open on Sunday and closed on Saturday.
The Jewish week ends on Saturday and it could be that in the Muslim world they have their own week order as well.

I want to use an English interface and setting en_uk solved the calendar problem.

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What calendar app do you use? I used to work on Outlook (and Schedule+), and in Outlook this is a setting–you can choose any day you want:

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EDIT: (looks at thread). I see you’re on Linux (duh) sorry for the dumb comment. :man_facepalming:

I can’t recall for sure, but if you’re using Evolution (the closest thing I’ve found to Outlook on Linux, and my personal fav for Linux) I think it might have a similar option.

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I meant the calendar that pops up when you click the date at the bottom right of the screen. Or did I use the wrong name, is that not a calendar?

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In “date and time settings” I selected “system locale” because I did not know what else could be messed up with en_us. For instance date MM/DD/YYYY instead of DD-MM-YYYY
I could have chosen and set “First day of the week” like you showed but what else…

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<joke>There is SOOO much ‘messed up with en_us’ these days. If it wasn’t so cold up there, I’d consider en-ca. </joke>

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At least on Gnome, it normally honors the first day of the week as specified in your system locale (first_weekday in LC_TIME) rather than making it a separate setting.

  • en_US defaults to Sunday
  • en_GB defaults to Monday
$ locale -k LC_TIME | grep first_weekday
first_weekday=1
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I’ve lost count of how many times this has come up while doing sysadmin and devops work, no matter what we chose someone always objected.. And dont lets get started on ‘week numbers’.

It still pops up occasionally; last month I wrote a MicroPython driver for a Real Time Clock chip; and had to make the same decision.. I chose Monday (but left it as a public attribute so the user could override or localize

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