Re: [PHPiCalendar-DEV] 0.8.1

[Jared <xe...@si...>]

On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 02:29  AM, Michel wrote:

> NONE english country have their start day of the week other that 
> sunday, NONE french, german or italian speaking country have their 
> start day other than monday.

What about Canada? They speak both French and English. There week start 
is on Sunday, isn't it? Even in Quebec?

> It's like 24/12 format time or metric system: it's stuck to the 
> language. You have to know that foreign country with english as 
> primary language (like in africa), they adopt the same habits as in US 
> or OK: non metric system, 12 time format, and sunday as start day of 
> the week.

I disagree. It's not stuck to the language but rather the country. The 
US has the week start on Sunday. If someone in the US prefers their 
calendars to be viewed in French or German, why should the week start 
be on Monday? The calendar is still a US calendar.

It is very common for a language to be stuck to a country as well, but 
they aren't tied as tightly together and bilingual people might want to 
choose.

For me, I'm learning Japanese. Neither of our solutions will affect me 
as Japan has a week start of Sunday too so either way it'll work. I 
want it to work for everyone, though.

Now, your idea to have some other custom.inc.php or something might 
work. However, I'd rather the visitor get to choose which language to 
view it in and the system admin get to choose the week start. If we 
implement a good multi-user system, all this will be solved as each 
user will be able to choose their own settings. Any visitor might be 
able to change the language, but the start week is something fixed to 
the creator of the calendar, as that is the layout of the calendar to 
that person.

I dunno, it's all very confusing, but I do want a good implementation 
when this is all done so we have to come up with something sound.

-Jared