First day of the week in calendar

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Rick Cameron

Hi, all

Both the calendar gadget in the sidebar and the calendar shown when you
click on the time in the taskbar seem always to use Sunday as the first day
of the week. My week starts on Monday - but I haven't found a way to change
this.

Windows Calendar does allow me to change the first day of the week to
Monday - but this change doesn't affect the other calendars.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

- rick
 
Hm. It's always puzzled me why Christian societies seem to have agreed that
Sunday is the first day of the week. Didn't God rest on the seventh day? ;^)

Anyway, I doubt that there are any laws that define the first day of the
week (although if anyone knows of one, I'd be interested in hearing about
it!)

Cheers

- rick
 
It depends where in the world you are I guess (or grew up). I used to get
calenders from a company based in Switzerland and the pictures were stunning
but the calender itself was useless to me as it started with Monday and it
made it hard to use when just glancing at it. They also numbered there weeks
which is convenient as well (if your used to it).

Rich
 
Well, it turns out that there's a setting in the registry that controls the
first day of the week. Once I changed this, both the sidebar gadget and the
taskbar calendar changed.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International > iFirstDayOfWeek. 0 = Monday,
6 = Sunday

Cheers

- rick
 
Your right, God rested on the Sabbath or Saturday as many Jews continue to
remember today. That's the seventh day, Sunday being the first (the name has
nothing Christian but comes from ancient traditions related to the Sun).

Traditionally Christians have not kept the Sabbath because it was the day in
which men commemorate the completion of this creation that is passing away.
Rather Christians have met on the first day of a new week to celebrate the
resurrection of Christ, a resurrection that has brought new life to man and
the hope of a new creation. The resurrection of Christ is seen as the first
fruits of a Creation to come, obviously a creation that begins with of a new
week. The old creation is passing away, those who have their hope linked to
this creation can continue to celebrate the Sabbath but for those who have
their eyes set on a New Heaven and a New Earth, we have the joy of
anticipating that which was confirmed by the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.

I will not reply to any further posts about this as it's not the place but
you asked, so there it is.
 
Thanks for the explanation, mr/ms clouds. It sounds very plausible, and
explains both why Christians prefer Sunday as their holy day, and why they
see it as the first day of the week.

Cheers

- rick
 
Good detective work. This should be user-alterable via the control panel
regional settings, but I couldn't find one.

Thought: if your calendar shows Monday on the left, does that change the
days that are the week ends?
 
Hi, Carl

"Thought: if your calendar shows Monday on the left, does that change the
days that are the week ends?"

Do you mean does the computer consider the weekend to consist of different
days? If so, how would I tell? The weekend days don't appear to be marked
specially in the calendars shown by Vista.

Cheers

- rick
 
It IS alterable via Control Panel, just not directly. Go to Control Panel |
Regional and Language Optons | Formats and choose the format that's right for
your locale.
 
mapoelm

Where are you trying to change the 1st day to Monday ?
Might be able to help if you give this information.
 
If it's to do with the Calendar gadget then you might want to look at my
reply in the "Windows 64-Bit computing" forum on the 2 May 2008 under the
heading "Calendar gadget shows Monday as the first day of the week".

Hope this helps.
 
The registry edit in the blog works fine.
Change
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\iFirstDayOfWeek to 0
 
When you modify the registry, don't forget to logoff and back on or reboot
for the change to take effect.
 
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