[ILUG] the first day of the week?

[David Howe]

On Wed, March 4, 2009 10:53 am, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> As the following script shows, the locale for IE on linux
> has Sunday as the first day of the week. I always think
> of Sunday as the last day and the UK locale concurs.
> Where could I lookup the "right" answer?
>
> for LANG in en_IE en_GB; do
>   date -d"$(locale week-1stday) +$(($(locale first_weekday)-1))day" +%a
> done
>
> Sun
> Mon
This agrees with crontab, from man page for crontab:

"day of week    0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)"

Sunday is the first day of the week, day "0".



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