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To change the first day of the week, for instance when your system is set to en-US locale, but you want Monday as the first day, you can implement a number of solutions:

• Edit /etc/default/locale and add:

  LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8

  This will also change the paper size to A4, and measurements to the Metric system.

• Edit ~/.xsessionrc and add:

  export LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8

• Create a custom locale file and change the environment to use it:

  $ cd /usr/share/i18n/locales/ $ sudo cp en_US en_US_custom $ sudo sed -i 's/first_weekday 1/first_weekday 2/' en_US_custom $ sudo su # echo LC_TIME=en_US_custom.UTF-8

Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/6016/how-to-set-monday-as-the-first-day-of-the-week-in-gnome-calendar-applet