Gunnar, just like Andrei i find your reasoning flawed. As for ability to set arbitrary time formats and week starting days ect - more and more people live and work in a global world where the lines between time zones, customs, working environments become more and more blurred. Think of international companies with offices all over the world that might use en_US while needing to work with the local time and week conventions. Similar applies to millions of local companies that hire international workforce...
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878767 Title: No GUI option to change week-starting day Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: There is no easily accessible way for a user to change the which day of the week the calendar starts on. This is a problem in all GNOME and Unity versions of Ubuntu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 CasperVersion: 1.287 Date: Thu Oct 20 11:41:52 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_gnome-control-center: deja-dup 20.0-0ubuntu3 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 indicator-datetime 0.3.0-0ubuntu3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/878767/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
