I think his question is:
"How do I determine (automagically) what the first day of the week is,
for a given LOCALE?"
I think he wants something like this:
Zend_Locale::setLocale( <LOCALE> );
Zend_Date::getFirstWeekday(); // returns 0 for Americas, 1 for Germany
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Thomas Weidner <thomas.weid...@gmx.at> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "takeshin" <admi...@gmail.com>
> To: <fw-general@lists.zend.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 3:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [fw-general] Zend_Date first day of the week
>
>
>
>>> $date->getWeekday(0);
>>>
>>> Note that NOT EVERY COUNTRY defines 0 to be sunday... it depends on the
>>> country if 0 is a sunday or another day.
>>>
>>
>> Thank you. That's all in the manual.
>
> Why have you asked when you knew it and all is within the manual ??
>
>> But, simply put:
>> How to determine this is '0' should be 0 or other value for specified
>> locale?
>
> Don't rely on "0"...
> As said 0 can be sunday or saturday or monday.
> But monday is always monday.
>
>> I thought that Zend_Date might provide this information.
>
> It does.
>
>> I'm creating a calendar. It would be nice, if calendar looked like this:
>>
>> // for english speaking users
>> Zend_Locale::setLocale('en');
>> (0)Sunday, (1)Monday, (2)Tuesday, (3)Wednesday ...
>>
>> // for German speaking users
>> Zend_Locale::setLocale('de');
>> (1)Montag, (2)Dienstag, (3)Mittwoch, (4)Donnerstag...
>>
>> //
>> Zend_Locale::setLocale('pl');
>> (1)Poniedziałek, (2)Wtorek, (3)Środa, (4)Czwartek...
>
> As said before:
> Don't rely on 0 being Sunday.
> The 7.December.2009 is always monday regardless of the locale or if the used
> calendar format defines 0 to be sunday.
>
> Greetings
> Thomas Weidner, I18N Team Leader, Zend Framework
> http://www.thomasweidner.com
>
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