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User profile for user: Marcello_Oliveira
Marcello_Oliveira Author
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Brazilian Calendar Problem - week should start on Sunday

If a user selects Brazil/Portuguese as the international settings on the iPhone, everything works fine except the calendar.



Here in Brazil, the first day of a week is allways on Sunday and not on Monday. (I can't imagine where Apple got this information...).



This allways confuses the user when checking the calendar and sometimes leads to mistakes.



Apple must fix this problem or - at least - offer the possibility of choosing the week start day for the calendar application.

iPhone 4, iOS 4

Posted on Jan 10, 2011 11:49 AM

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User profile for user: ANOVA
ANOVA
User level: Level 2
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Jan 10, 2011 12:37 PM in response to Marcello_Oliveira

Hello Marcello_Oliveira,

Welcome to the Apple User to User discussions.

When I have United States selected the week begins on Sunday.
I can see why beginning the calendar week on Monday might throw you off.

Here is a link for iPhone feedback
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Maybe someone else has a work-around or fix. I didn't see one.

Good Luck and Happy Computing,

A
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User profile for user: Marcello_Oliveira
Marcello_Oliveira Author
User level: Level 1
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Jan 19, 2011 5:06 PM in response to ANOVA

Hi ANOVA,

Thanks for your response, but...

I had tried the workaround that you mentioned before posting this topic. Unfortunately, if regional settings configuration is changed from Brazil to United States, the first day of the week becomes Sunday, but the calendar language changes from Portuguese to English ⚠. This also affects other regional settings (like number simbology) to other standards that are not Brazilian.

So if you "fix" something, other things become defective.

The easy solution for this problem is to create an option that allows the user to select the first day of the week (Sunday or Monday) or to correct the Brazilian Calendar format (again: I can not imagine where Apple got this information...)

Regards,

Marcello.
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Brazilian Calendar Problem - week should start on Sunday

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