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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <878767@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your effort to help improve Ubuntu by pointing at this aspect
of user preferences!

Indeed there is a suitable GUI for the purpose, namely the "Regional
Formats" tab in Language Support. If you for instance prefer the US
conventions for dates and times (weeks begin on Sunday), you pick the
en_US locale, etc.

Actually I would argue against adding such a control to the Time & Date
settings module. Language Support's "Regional Formats" tab - and its
successor in Precise - is there for a reason, and when a user selects a
region for controlling this kind of settings, s/he can be assumed to
expect that the choice is effective all over the desktop. In other
words, typically I don't think that app specific UIs that override the
user's choice in Language Support is a good idea. Btw, the existing
control for setting 12-hour or 24-hour time is superfluous IMO.

How about dealing with this bug report by simply adding a link from the
Time & Date module to the central desktop tool for regional formats
settings?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878767

Title:
  No GUI option to week-starting day

Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  There is no easily accessible way for a user to change the which day
  of the week the calendar starts on. This is a problem in all GNOME and
  Unity versions of Ubuntu.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.287
  Date: Thu Oct 20 11:41:52 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
   deja-dup           20.0-0ubuntu3
   gnome-bluetooth    3.2.0-0ubuntu1
   indicator-datetime 0.3.0-0ubuntu3

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