Changing First Day Of The Week?

fowlerleftfoot · #1 (**permalink**) 08-28-2006

Hi All,
Our system is running on Solaris 8 and we are using US locale. By default the First Day Of Week is Sunday, is it possible for us to change it to Monday?
I have googled it but found very little of use.
THanks in advance.

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 08-28-2006

You define a locale by creating and compiling a locale defintion file with localedef.
This is a discussion of the syntax of the file:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/...ml#tag_005_003

I scanned the page and I do not see an example of different first day of the week.
What I would do is look for a localedef file for a locale with Monday as the first day of the week. Arabic may be a good choice. I really do not know. I suspect that the day-name order is changed, which will cause you pain elsewhere.

Anyway any and all locale changes for specialty locales are made with localedef.

fowlerleftfoot · #3 (**permalink**) 08-28-2006

Thanks for the response Jim, will try that.

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