[Bug localedata/10011] wrong first_weekday/first_workday for de_AT locale

["flyer dot REMOVE dot SPAM at gSmPaAiMl dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

------- Additional Comments From flyer dot REMOVE dot SPAM at gSmPaAiMl dot com  2009-04-02 10:08 -------
Hello,

this bug is taking off in an unwanted direction.
This bug is _not_ about correcting the first day of a week in de_AT (which would
correspond to week[2]).
This bug is about correcting first_weekday (the day calendars should start a
week in) in de_AT.

Some commentors said, that in Austria weeks are Mondays based (note the
difference to first_weekday). This is true.
Currently de_AT bases weeks on Sundays.
This bug bug however does not address this mismatch. Setting de_AT to Monday
based, breaks the output of several applications (date, cal, ...), as for
example strftime does not work properly with Monday based weeks. In the end I
want to overcome this limitation and base Austrian weeks on Monday. But that's
out of scope of this bug. Getting things right requires three steps:
1. Provide a short-term fix to get calendars showing the correct start of a week
(This is the purpose of this bug).
2. Correct strftime to treat Monday based weeks nicely (This will become a bug
on its own).
3. For countries having Monday based weeks (just as Austria), adapt
corresponding locales (This will become other, separate bugs).

This bug's sole purpose is to provide a short-term fix for calendars.
Let's keep it at that.

Kind regards,
Paul

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