How to Change Week #'s in Calendar

In Both iOS & OSX, Apple deviates from the Western norm of Monday as the 1st Day of the Week (Yes, this is common in the US). There is an option to change the Start Day of the Week, however, this does not change the Week Numbering scheme if one chooses to use Week Numbers (Weeks remain numbered from Sun-Sat regardless of which date the User selects as his/her First day of the Week.


Is the Week Numbering Format fixed, or can it be changed? If it cannot be changed can someone in the developer program please submit this as a bug fix?


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OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Nov 19, 2014 5:51 PM

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Dec 7, 2014 3:56 PM in response to GregF.888

Barney you are wrong. I already explained that changing the region will fix the calendar the way I want. I don't want any history lesson's or know it all BS. Stop responding - you are stuck in a box.


Again, might there be some sort of workaround - perhaps a region that uses a default Mon - Sun week and does not radically alter any other calendar, contact, date / time, currency fields that can not be changed?

Nov 19, 2014 8:11 PM in response to GregF.888

I've been in the West for near half a century and the first day of the week has always been Sunday. The workweek starts on Monday, but that's not the same thing.

The US standard for week numbering is the numbering starts on the First Sunday in the Year. The first day of 2014 was Wednesday, so it was part of Week 52 from the previous year. Week 1 of 2014 started on Sunday, the 5th.


The ISO standard has Monday as the first day of the week and sets week 1 as the week that the first Thursday falls.


Regardless, the Start Week day in Calendar merely moves the Day column of the month/week to first column for the chosen Week start day.

And, calendar doesn't follow either standard. It sets week 1 as the whole week, starting Sunday, that contains the first of January.

Dec 7, 2014 2:22 PM in response to GregF.888

I too have 50+ years in the West. Regardless of what is legislated from Washington, the actual rhythm of life has always dictated that Monday is the first day of the week: First day of business, school & government. Saturday & Sunday are the "weekend" by consensus. It was not long ago that all retail establishments were closed on Sunday. Pick any day you want to start your week. I choose Monday as that coincides with the way life is actually lived in the US.


On to the actual question: There is no way to choose a Monday - Sunday calendar without some kind of problem arising. 1) if you change the start day of the week neither iOS or OSX will renumber the weeks on the calendar properly (they will remain on a Sunday - Saturday numbering). 2) you can change the default region to UK and the calendar week will begin on Monday as it does in the UK and much of Europe. The week numbering will follow a Mon - Sun week correctly. You can manually change the currency and numbering defaults, however, the telephone field in your contacts will follow UK formatting. On it goes....


Again, is there a straight forward workaround or can we call it in a "bug fix " that changing the start day of the week does not also reorder the week dates accordingly?

Dec 7, 2014 2:57 PM in response to Barney-15E

Sunday as the first day is a very old tradition based on astronomy and Sun worship. Constantine set the current standard as Monday 1,800 years ago. The majority of the Western world sticks to this Standard. ISO supports this standard. The citizens of the US live their lives on this standard. Washington DC deviates for some unknown reason. All this is irrelevant to me. Barney, I am not asking for permission to order my week the way I want. If Washington legislated a Sun - Sat week, but the reality was that people in my community lived on Tue - Mon week that is what I would sync up with.


Barney, if you can not answer the following question you have no purpose in this thread. How can I pick any day other than US default as the start of the week and have the calendar weeks properly dated in accordance with my chosen start day?

Dec 7, 2014 3:10 PM in response to GregF.888


Barney, if you can not answer the following question you have no purpose in this thread. How can I pick any day other than US default as the start of the week and have the calendar weeks properly dated in accordance with my chosen start day?

I already answered that question a few posts ago. You can't. Apple has chosen one standatd to order the weeks and you cannot change that.

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