Bug 451633

Summary:	Time format example text should say what the first day of the week is
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	David <david.cortes.rivera>
Component:	kcm_regionandlang	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	hanyoung, nate, wazhai
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description David 2022-03-17 20:11:59 UTC

SUMMARY
If I try to select a format for time display in the settings, it doesn't give any hint about which day is the first day of the week (either Sunday or Monday) on the available formats that one can select there.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Go to system settings -> Regional Settings -> Formats -> Time.
2. Try to set a non-default format. Try to figure out which is the first day of the week in the format that is being applied.

OBSERVED RESULT
No hint about which is the first day of the week in the formats.

EXPECTED RESULT
Should tell me which day is the first day of the week, since that's perhaps the most common reason to want to change the time format anyway, and since there is no easy way of finding out externally with which day is a given format going to start the weeks. For example, I see there is a format named "English (Germany)" - how am I supposed to know about that format means? Will being "Germany" make it start the weeks on Monday as German law dictates, or will "English" make it start on Sunday as English tradition does?

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.16.0-4-amd64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core Processor
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD VEGA10

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-03-26 02:38:09 UTC

> since that's perhaps the most common reason to want to change the time format anyway
This may be true for you, but it's not necessarily true for everyone else. People very commonly want to change the time format itself while leaving the first day of the week the same.

Still, a valid request.