Subject: Re: silly request for ideas about about silly change
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/22/2002 01:25:50
> > Actually, how about looking in locale? That's the storehouse for
> > preferences like this, isn't it?
> >
> Hm, don't know, maybe. I had some vague memory that the week numbering
> was part of the timezone info, but I may be wrong there. Someone will
> probably inform about this.
No, it's not, and in general I think locales should be avoided like
plague. While useful for some rough adjustments they are too blunt
a tool for small cultural adjustments like this.
> -- Ragge
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