AU locale has incorrect Day Of Week

[Russell Keith-Magee]

The newly added AU locale sets FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK to Monday. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK is primarily used to render calendars, and calendars in AU almost universally start weeks with Sunday.

Opening this as a ticket rather than just fixing it because of the inevitable backlash.

[anonymous]

In my experience (state of Victoria), calendars are usually printed with Monday as the first column.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Well, I can't say that's been my experience.

I present as evidence:

• The Unicode CLDR project: ​http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/supplemental/territory_language_information.html
• The default settings for the AU locale on Apple OSX
• TimeAndDate.com's calendar generator: ​http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/generate.html
• This Vox Pops on the Courier Mail's website: ​http://blogs.news.com.au/couriermail/parenting/index.php/couriermail/comments/so_which_day_is_the_first_day_of_the_week
• All except one commercially purchased calendars around my house, including this year's Australian Geographic "Frogs" wall calendar

The data I can find to supporting Australia using Monday as the first day of the week are:

• The fact that Australia is officially a signatory/adopter to ISO 8601 (as AS ISO 8601-2007) which mandates Monday as start of week.
• Occasional vox pop opinions calling for Monday because it's more convenient or "less religious".
• Some Apple support forums where people are asking how to set monday as first day of the week in Australia
• One calendar in my house - however, "week starting Monday" was a specific purchase requirement (on advice from a school psychologist).

[Nathan Smith]

Pull Request: ​https://github.com/django/django/pull/2430

ISO 8601 does say Monday is the start of the week for Australia, but if you decide you would like to have it be Sunday, here is a pull request for that.

[Russell Keith-Magee <russell@…>]

In bb2c58c70133b3a03437e7d45510b062cb31b36c:

Merge pull request #2430 from NathanRSmith/ticket_21989

Fixed #21989 - Modified first day of week in AU locale.

Although Australia is a signatory to ISO 8601, there's a lot of evidence to suggest that this is in the same category as "officially, the USA uses metric". See the ticket for supporting details.