Re: timezones' beginning day of the week list

[Carlos Garnacho <garnacho tuxerver net>]

El dom, 22-12-2002 a las 04:37, Christian Rose escribió:
> Hi!
> 
> Do you mean timezones or locales? I know that different locales use
> different first day of week. Some respect ISO8601[1] and use Monday as
> the first day of week, some don't and use Sunday instead. Unfortunately,
> the current GtkCalendar doesn't take that into account. There's a GTK+
> bug open for that; http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87977.
> 
> But I'm not sure how different time zones relate to different first day
> of week.
> 

you're probably right :-), but there are places that appear in the
timezone map that use an unknown (at least for me) locale
(pacific/rarotonga for example), So then I'd need a list of timezones
and locales they use :-D

> 
> > to do this I need a list
> > with the timezones and the beginning day of the week, could you help me
> > to get this list done? :-)
> 
> Sure. I can start:
> 
> Locale  First day of week
> -------------------------
> sv	Monday[2]
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> [1]: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
> [2]: In fact, there's no Swedish-made calendars to be found that don't
> use Monday as the first day of week:
> http://www.se.gnome.org/sv/lokal/datum_och_tid/index.en.html
> 
> 
>