Incorrect start of the week for en_IE locale (should be Monday not Sunday)

[RafalLukawiecki]

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Steps to reproduce

1. Set user account locale to English (Ireland), or set default_locale to en_IE in config.php

Expected behaviour

The "Locale" section of user settings should say "Week starts on Monday". This would be in line with the moment/en-ie.js week.dow setting of "Monday is the first day of the week" and in accordance with the Irish custom, similar to the rest of Europe, and the way it works in other systems, for example macOS or iOS, when set to the Irish local

Actual behaviour

The "Locale" section of the user settings says "Week starts on Sunday" which is not the expected value for Ireland. This affects Calendar view making it look strange and making multi-day event planning awkward.

As a workaround, changing locale to en_GB solves the issue of the starting day of the week, but that is not the correct locale for the Republic of Ireland.

Server configuration

Operating system:
FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE-p9

Web server:
caddy

Database:
mysql

PHP version:
7.3.19

Nextcloud version: (see Nextcloud admin page)
19.0.0

Updated from an older Nextcloud/ownCloud or fresh install:
18.0.6

Where did you install Nextcloud from:
https://github.com/danb35/freenas-iocage-nextcloud

Signing status:

Signing status

No errors have been found.

List of activated apps:

App list

Enabled:
  - accessibility: 1.5.0
  - activity: 2.12.0
  - calendar: 2.0.3
  - cloud_federation_api: 1.2.0
  - comments: 1.9.0
  - contacts: 3.3.0
  - contactsinteraction: 1.0.0
  - dav: 1.15.0
  - encryption: 2.7.0
  - federatedfilesharing: 1.9.0
  - federation: 1.9.0
  - files: 1.14.0
  - files_pdfviewer: 1.8.0
  - files_rightclick: 0.16.0
  - files_sharing: 1.11.0
  - files_trashbin: 1.9.0
  - files_versions: 1.12.0
  - files_videoplayer: 1.8.0
  - firstrunwizard: 2.8.0
  - groupfolders: 6.0.6
  - logreader: 2.4.0
  - lookup_server_connector: 1.7.0
  - mail: 1.4.0
  - nextcloud_announcements: 1.8.0
  - notifications: 2.7.0
  - oauth2: 1.7.0
  - password_policy: 1.9.1
  - photos: 1.1.0
  - privacy: 1.3.0
  - provisioning_api: 1.9.0
  - recommendations: 0.7.0
  - serverinfo: 1.9.0
  - settings: 1.1.0
  - sharebymail: 1.9.0
  - support: 1.2.1
  - survey_client: 1.7.0
  - systemtags: 1.9.0
  - text: 3.0.1
  - theming: 1.10.0
  - twofactor_backupcodes: 1.8.0
  - updatenotification: 1.9.0
  - viewer: 1.3.0
  - workflowengine: 2.1.0
Disabled:
  - admin_audit
  - files_external
  - user_ldap

Nextcloud configuration:

Config report

{
    "system": {
        "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "trusted_domains": [
            "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***"
        ],
        "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbtype": "mysql",
        "version": "19.0.0.12",
        "overwrite.cli.url": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbport": "",
        "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
        "mysql.utf8mb4": true,
        "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "installed": true,
        "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "logtimezone": "Europe\/Dublin",
        "log_type": "file",
        "logfile": "\/var\/log\/nextcloud.log",
        "loglevel": "2",
        "logrotate_size": "104847600",
        "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
        "redis": {
            "host": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "port": 0
        },
        "memcache.locking": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
        "overwritehost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "overwriteprotocol": "https",
        "htaccess.RewriteBase": "\/",
        "mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
        "mail_smtpsecure": "tls",
        "mail_sendmailmode": "smtp",
        "mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpport": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "skeletondirectory": "\/mnt\/files\/skeleton",
        "maintenance": false,
        "theme": "",
        "updater.release.channel": "stable",
        "updater.secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "default_language": "en_GB",
        "default_locale": "en_GB"
    }
}

Are you using external storage, if yes which one: local/smb/sftp/...
No

Are you using encryption: yes/no
Yes

Are you using an external user-backend, if yes which one: LDAP/ActiveDirectory/Webdav/...
No

Client configuration

Browser:
Safari

Operating system:
macOS

Logs

Web server error log

Web server error log

***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***

Nextcloud log (data/nextcloud.log)

Nextcloud log

***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***

Browser log

Browser log

***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***

[szaimen]

I can reproduce this on NC21.0.2.
As a workaround: please use the Irish (United Kingdom) locale.

[lindhe]

Same for Swedish locale.

[politas]

As a workaround: please use the Irish (United Kingdom) locale.

Doesn't work for me. Like every single English locale, Irish (United Kingdom) is starting on Sunday.

[politas]

How is it that this is still a problem after two and a half years? People keep mentioning workarounds that never seem to work, and are not great anyway. The ISO standard is weeks starting on Monday, which is the default for almost every English locale, but Nextcloud is setting it to Sunday. Could we at the very least get a manual setting for Week Starts On?

[szaimen]

Hi, please update to 24.0.8 or better 25.0.2 and report back if it fixes the issue. Thank you!

My goal is to add a label like e.g. 25-feedback to this ticket of an up-to-date major Nextcloud version where the bug could be reproduced. However this is not going to work without your help. So thanks for all your effort!

If you don't manage to reproduce the issue in time and the issue gets closed but you can reproduce the issue afterwards, feel free to create a new bug report with up-to-date information by following this link: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/new?assignees=&labels=bug%2C0.+Needs+triage&template=BUG_REPORT.yml&title=%5BBug%5D%3A+

[politas]

I have recently upgraded to 25.0.2
English(Australia) is still incorrectly saying Starts on Sunday:

English(World) is saying Starts on Monday, though:

Though that does not stop the calendar from starting weeks on Sunday.

[politas]

Oh, just noticed, as you can see above, that English (World) is using the absurd US date representation that no other country uses.

[politas]

In general a workaround involving using an also-incorrect locale is not a useful workaround.

[politas]

I'm now on Nextcloud 27.0.0, and English (Australia) locale is still incorrectly setting Week Starts On to Sunday.

[politas]

Now upgraded to Nextcloud 27.1.1, and the same issues persist:

• English(Australia) incorrectly sets week starts on to Sunday
• English(World) incorrectly sets date formatting to mm/dd/yyyy
• There is no Great Britain or United Kingdom locale for English (the bare "English" setting has week starts on Sunday, so I don't think that's correct for the UK)

Isn't this a simple locale definitions file somewhere that needs to be fixed? It does seem to take a long time to actually apply a changed locale setting.

[susnux]

Incorrect start of the week for en_IE locale

This is resolved