[ILUG] the first day of the week?

[Pádraig Brady]

Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 04 Mar 2009, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
>> old$ LC_TIME=en_IE.utf8 locale week-1stday first_weekday
>> 19971130
>> 1
>>
>> new$ LC_TIME=en_IE.utf8 locale week-1stday first_weekday
>> 19971130
>> 2
> 
> How does this relate to cron, or does it all?  The day-of-week in cron, at
> least in my experience, has 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, etc.
> 
> Is that locale related or is that the same worldwide?

That would have to be cron specific and the same worldwide.

The first day of the week in the locale database is used
for example to determine how people would like their
calendars displayed.

Pádraig.