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Interesting. Suburban Sydney here. I did a brief trawl through historical calendars on the ebay, most dating back from the mid 1960's, most from NAB or other

by Jedd 8y ago

Interesting. Suburban Sydney here. I did a brief trawl through historical calendars on the ebay, most dating back from the mid 1960's, most from NAB or other large institutions. Surprisingly I noted that they showed Sunday as the first day of the week. So now I'm trying to remember what calendars we had in the house growing up, and how that fits with locale settings on most OS's assuming that Australians have Monday as the first day of the week.

justinclift 8y ago
Checked here on our macOS (High Sierra) build server. In the system locale settings (set to "Australia") it has the first day of the week as Sunday. Which is what I'd expect, as that's the first day of the week I was taught and am used to. :) Note - I don't think that's as change I made, as I doubt I've gone into these settings before. Not 100% sure though.
- Jedd 8y ago
  Very interesting. GMail uses Monday, but I'd have changed that a decade or so ago had it been otherwise. I checked on kde calendar (something I've never run before) and it's using my en_AU locale - and it's picked Monday. But http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp?d_=en&_=en_AU http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp?d_=en&_=en_AU suggests the CLDR identifies AU as 'Sunday as first day of week', which is highly alarming. Do you know if MacOS uses CLDR, or would it be picking up Apple's assumption about AU locale preferences? (Do you have colour or color settings in your control panel?)
  - justinclift 8y ago
    Wasn't sure what CLDR is ;), though a quick search online turned up a relevant sounding Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Locale_Data_Repository https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Locale_Data_Repository In that, it mentions macOS does use it. The macOS "System Preferences" (system wide control panel) does have a colour settings area. No mention of CLDR, it's more about the locally connected displays and their display gamut (eg Adobe RGB, sRGB, etc).
    - Jedd 8y ago
      To be clear, I was wondering if the regional preferences for AU meant their colour settings spelled colour with an ou not just two o's. I think we can probably chalk this up to my insulated childhood, and a subsequent cultivated intolerance to Sunday-first calendars.
      - justinclift 8y ago
        Ahhh. The System Preferences spelling of colour is ... "Color". Looks like it's hard coded, not picking up the correct spelling for Oz. :/ And yeah, no worries. :)

by Jedd 8y ago

justinclift 8y ago

Checked here on our macOS (High Sierra) build server. In the system locale settings (set to "Australia") it has the first day of the week as Sunday. Which is what I'd expect, as that's the first day of the week I was taught and am used to. :) Note - I don't think that's as change I made, as I doubt I've gone into these settings before. Not 100% sure though.

Jedd 8y ago
Very interesting. GMail uses Monday, but I'd have changed that a decade or so ago had it been otherwise. I checked on kde calendar (something I've never run before) and it's using my en_AU locale - and it's picked Monday. But http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp?d_=en&_=en_AU http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp?d_=en&_=en_AU suggests the CLDR identifies AU as 'Sunday as first day of week', which is highly alarming. Do you know if MacOS uses CLDR, or would it be picking up Apple's assumption about AU locale preferences? (Do you have colour or color settings in your control panel?)
- justinclift 8y ago
  Wasn't sure what CLDR is ;), though a quick search online turned up a relevant sounding Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Locale_Data_Repository https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Locale_Data_Repository In that, it mentions macOS does use it. The macOS "System Preferences" (system wide control panel) does have a colour settings area. No mention of CLDR, it's more about the locally connected displays and their display gamut (eg Adobe RGB, sRGB, etc).
  - Jedd 8y ago
    To be clear, I was wondering if the regional preferences for AU meant their colour settings spelled colour with an ou not just two o's. I think we can probably chalk this up to my insulated childhood, and a subsequent cultivated intolerance to Sunday-first calendars.
    - justinclift 8y ago
      Ahhh. The System Preferences spelling of colour is ... "Color". Looks like it's hard coded, not picking up the correct spelling for Oz. :/ And yeah, no worries. :)