Hi dwb, On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 08:57:24 +0000, dwb wrote:
> Regarding en-GB (British English), and probably the same applies to en-IE, > the only issue is over the first day of the week. > > I wrote to Dr Stockton at Surrey University - he has done research on the > subject and can offer arguments and historical perspectives supporting both > views. Nice :-/ > "There are some things in the UK for which, overall, we really do not use a > standard, and this is one of them." > > Also: "Certainly we have historically started the week on Sunday (unlike, > it seems, the Creator who apparently chose Monday); Well, that just depends on the religion in use.. ;-) > but the working week starts on Monday." which also derived from religion.. so not much helpful either. > He cites BS EN 28601:1992 which is based on ISO 8601 first edition, which > states that the first day of the week is Monday and adopts the ISO > algorithm for week numbering. I think we can sort that out to be Monday. > I have also written to the BSI, but have not had a response yet. >From previous discussions I remember that the BSI defined it to be Monday, which apparently is the reason that CLDR lists Monday. > Given that both Sunday and Monday appear to be in common usage, why don't > we consider making the first day of the week user configurable within the > options settings? We could then default to the ISO standard (Monday) and > those who prefer Sunday could simply set their choice under options settings? That could be an option, but honestly, I strongly doubt that anyone would spend resources on it. Maybe the British should simply make up their mind ;-) Eike -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. GnuPG key 0x293C05FD: 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
