521718 - First Day of the Week is Not Changeable in Birthday Field Pop-up Calendar

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: UI Widgets, enhancement)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091006 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: 3.0b4pre

If you go to edit a birthday in a person's address book entry, there is a small calendar that you can pop up to select the date rather than type it in.

This is a good thing, however there is no way to set the correct "week starts on" day. For example, for me, the week starts on Monday, and is set as such in Lightning. Such a setting should apply elsewhere wherever there is a calendar (and generally does).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install lightning
2. Set the week to start on Monday (in Lightning's settings)
3. Open a person's address book entry
4. Go to the tab with their birthday, and click the little calendar to open it.
5. Note that the first day of each week remains Sunday.


Expected Results:  
I'd expect changes made to Lightning to be applied elsewhere.

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Lightning has nothing to do with Thunderbird address book. Lightning preferences only affect Lightning content. The birthday fields in address book are provided and controlled by Thunderbird itself.

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

Yeah, I had a feeling, though can't TB see Lightning's settings, and adjust to them as necessary?

Comment 3

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Not a Lightning/Calendar issue (comment#1)!

Comment 4

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

Putting Lightning aside, it is still nice to be able to change the "First day of the week" in Thunderbird (stand-alone) if TB cannot get this information from the underlying O/S.

Comment 5

[:aceman]

Mike, you seem to be using an en-US Firefox. Is that the same in Thunderbird?

The date picker has a firstdayofweek attribute, that if unset (as in TB) should determine the first day properly (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/datepicker#a-firstdayofweek).

It is not sure whether it takes it from the TB locale (which language you downloaded) or from the operating system.

I can confirm the problem, I also see a wrong first day if using en-US Thunderbird on a different locale of Windows.