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How to make calendar points to Sunday as first day of the week in Ubuntu 18.04
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A similar question was asked here: Monday as first day in Gnome-Shell (instead of Sunday)
- Use
sudo -H gedit /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_GB. - Edit the value of
first_weekdayto1. - Save the file, restart the system.
There is a second variable: first_workday that is set to 2. Some calendar’s may refer to this variable but I would initially leave it unchanged unless further tweaking is needed.
Essentially you will make your GB locale look like the US locale:
$ cat /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_GB | grep week -A1
week 7;19971130;4
first_weekday 2
first_workday 2
$ cat /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US | grep week -A1
week 7;19971130;7
first_weekday 1
first_workday 2
I don’t know what the week variable does so would leave it unchanged at first.