Re: [PATCH] Fix first_weekday/first_workday for EU locales

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 06/04/2012 05:54 PM, Petr Baudis wrote:

>   Hi!
> 
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 12:32:56PM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
>> Changes to fix the contact points will be handled independently and
>> en-masse across the 300+ locales after I return from a short
>> vacation.
>>
>> This patch fixes the first_weekday/first_workday per my message from
>> May 23.  If nobody's committed this by June 6, then I'll do so at
>> that time.  I'm posting it now in case Carlos or someone wants to
>> move forward a little faster and get it in prior to 2.16 branching.
> 
>   I have committed this patch, thanks for working on it!
> 
>   However, I decided to defer on the change to pt_PT. While legally,
> it is probably bound by the EU adoption of ISO8601, I have doubts
> about adoption of this in daily life, based on:
> 
> 	http://www.learn-portuguese-with-rafa.com/days-of-the-week-in-portuguese.html
> 	http://www.netplaces.com/brazilian-portuguese/the-vocabulary-of-numbers/days-of-the-week.htm
> 	http://www.brazil-help.com/week.htm
> 	<Adhemerval Zanella Netto> yes, Sunday is in fact the first day
> 		in the week in Brazil (IRC #glibc)
> 
> Most of the resources are about pt_BR, but also based on the language,
> I'm not sure this change is right for pt_PT either. I think more
> confirmation is required before making this change, therefore. Other
> locales seemed fine to me on a cursory inspection.


Yes, Sunday is considered the first day of the week in
Portugal, with Monday being the first work day of the week.  (Brazil
naturally gets that from Portugal.  The current day of the week naming
scheme got into use starting from the VI century, way before colonization
of Brazil.)  The latter means that nobody is really shocked with
saying Monday is the first day of the week, as that's how most people
actually think in practice.  I don't recall ever thinking on a
Saturday night something along the lines of "bummer, another week starts
tomorrow".  :-)

I don't know where to look for the official government's position on
this, but I wouldn't be shocked if it were to follow ISO8601.

-- 
Pedro Alves