change beginning of week to Sunday

[robert]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 18:17 +0200, Pekka Tiittanen wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 15:23 +0000, robert wrote:
> > Jeff,
> > 
> > I'm confused. On my system Ubuntu 5.10 the small pop up calendar has
> > Sunday as starting the week, whereas Evolution has Monday. BTW I always
> > thought that Sunday was the 7Th day in the Julian Calendar.
> 
> 
> I have no idea if that can be changed, it seems that it comes from the
> locale you use. I live in Finland but like to use my Gnome in english,
> so en_GB gives me Sunday as the first day of the week but I'd like it to
> be Monday.
> 
> fi_FI gives Monday as the first day of the week. I haven't tried en_US
> yet, but maybe I should give it a go too.
> 
> -- 
> I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so
> I took his shoes. -- Dave Barry 
> 
> -Pekka-
> 

Pekka, I've just noticed that with Evolution you can set the starting
day of the week. The default is Monday.

BTW I'm in the UK using en_GB too. Perhaps the OP should change to
that :-).

Rob