Bug#453314: locales: first_weekday setting in en_GB.UTF-8 possibly incorrect

[Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.7-2
Severity: normal

Hi there,

the weekday setting in en_GB.UTF-8's locale file seems incorrect to me:
$ LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" locale -k LC_TIME|grep '^first_'
first_weekday=2
first_workday=1
$ LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" locale -k LC_TIME|grep '^first_'
first_weekday=1
first_workday=2

And indeed clock-applet of Gnome thinks that my week starts on Tuesday
(which is how I noticed it).

A Gentoo system, also with 2.7, gives me the following (the calendar
displayed by the applet is correct):
$ LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" locale -k LC_TIME|grep '^first_'
first_weekday=1
first_workday=2
$ LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" locale -k LC_TIME|grep '^first_'
first_weekday=1
first_workday=1

I am not exactly sure if the difference of 1 day in week-1stday is
relevant here.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern