Description

The MonthCalendar macro always generates calendars that start on Monday. This is the wrong custom for most in North America.

In MoinMoin/macro/MonthCalendar.py, there is this code:

# The following line sets the calendar to have either Sunday or Monday as
# the first day of the week. Only SUNDAY or MONDAY (case sensitive) are
# valid here.  All other values will not make good calendars.
# If set to Sunday, the calendar is displayed at "March 2003" vs. "2003 / 3" also.
# XXX change here ----------------vvvvvv
calendar.setfirstweekday(calendar.MONDAY)

So somebody has noted the problem, but fixing it requires source editing. All other configuration settings are just that -- configuration settings. It is inconsistent that the date format is a config setting but the calendar start day isn't. Ideally, in fact, it would be a parameter to the macro rather than a global config setting, since different people on the same wiki may prefer different start dates.

Asking users to patch each new version of Moin for a configuration change is not very friendly.

Steps to reproduce

1. Use the MonthCalendar macro.

2. Observe that weeks always start on Monday.

Example

See HelpOnMacros/MonthCalendar.

Component selection

• macro MonthCalendar

Details

Workaround

Users have to hack MonthCalendar.py

Discussion

In moin2, this can be done by accessing locale data of user (babel), but MonthCalendar is not in moin2 (it needs major changes / major work).

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CategoryMoinMoinBug