1054987 - Should have option to start week on Monday (ISO weeks)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Calendar, defect)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Steps to reproduce:
 1) Use Flame.
 2) Use nightly Gecko+Gaia
 3) Use U.S. English as the UI language
 4) Make sure Calendar has been set up
 5) View the calendar
 6) View the settings UI of the Calendar app.

Actual results:
Weeks start on Sunday, U.S. style. There is no setting for showing Monday as the first day of the week in conformance with the ISO standard followed in Europe.

Expected results:
Expected to be able to use (as an option) the international stardard notion of what the first day of the week is even when using the U.S. English UI language.

Comment 1

[Mark Trompell]

Does that mean some localizations have monday as first day and I should file a bug to the localization if it doesn't have the right one? (although I would love the choise to set the first day independant of the locale.

Comment 2

[Gabor Kelemen]

Mark: yes, many localizations use Monday as first day of the week - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday#Position_in_the_week

Actually there is a locale specific setting in the shared/date/date.properties localization file:

   206 # Boolean to indicate if weekStarts on Monday (1) or Sunday (0).
   207 weekStartsOnMonday = 1

https://hg.mozilla.org/gaia-l10n/hu/file/36d6fbb23cb2/shared/date/date.properties#l206

But it could be useful to make this option configurable in the UI as well, in case someone would like to use their phone in one language but different culture - tourists, expats or people just unhappy with their localization come to my mind.

Comment 3

[Mark Trompell]

(In reply to kelemeng from comment #2)
> Mark: yes, many localizations use Monday as first day of the week - see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday#Position_in_the_week

>    207 weekStartsOnMonday = 1
Looks like it is like this for german too, but calendar doesn't seem to pick that up on my flame.
Probably worth a new bugreport.

Comment 4

[Miller Medeiros [:millermedeiros]]

(In reply to Mark Trompell from comment #3)
> (In reply to kelemeng from comment #2)
> >    207 weekStartsOnMonday = 1
> Looks like it is like this for german too, but calendar doesn't seem to pick
> that up on my flame.
> Probably worth a new bugreport.

calendar changed the way we handle the first day of the week recently since on some locales the week starts on Saturday.. so that's probably why you are getting the wrong value, now we use `firstDayOfWeek` instead of `weekStartsOnMonday` [1]

 [1] https://hg.mozilla.org/gaia-l10n/en-US/file/07161b0ca543/shared/date/date.properties#l212

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on