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Bug#1094785: locales: en_AU locale uses Sunday as first day of week but Australia uses Monday



control: forwarded -1 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24877
control: fixed -1 glibc/2.39-1

Hi,

On 2025-01-31 17:33, Bernard Davis wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.36-9+deb12u9
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The en_AU locale is using Sunday as the first day of the week, instead of 
> Monday. Australia officially uses Monday as the first day of the week. It has 
> officially adopted the ISO standard. Please refer here:
> 
> https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/grammar-punctuation-and-conventions/numbers-and-measurements/dates-and-time#IntlCom
> 
> Specifically: "Note: Style Manual lists Monday as the first day of the week. 
> This is consistent with the order of calendar days in a calendar week as 
> defined in the international standard adopted by Australia."
> 
> As Australia uses Monday as the first day of the week, the en_AU locale should 
> be updated to reflect this.

Thanks for the report and the details. This issue has already been
addressed upstream in glibc version 2.39. I’m marking the bug as fixed
accordingly.

Regards
Aurelien

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
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