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That's not a bug. It shows day by day, but because January 1st was on Saturday, It had to start with Sunday. |
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Unrelated things. For example, January 1, 2020 fell on a Wednesday. But on the calendar you see the same thing: the day of the week starts on Sunday
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Well, that ain't a bug. Just because the days are 364/365, They can't make a full calendar(7 days each week), so If it isn't Sunday on 1st January, It mait be understandable, because otherwise they have to make the end of the calendar look horrible or at least weird. other question is if they make it start on Monday when 1st January is Sunday(I don't think so) Anyways, whatever it is, you can make a change request, but that's not a bug, it's made on purpose. Also I don't think it needs change, but it's all a matter of perspective |
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The problem of displaying the graph has nothing to do with the beginning of the year or the number of days. |
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This is not a bug, it's just the typical time format in the USA (where GitHub is being developed) having Sunday as the first day of the week. |
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Just make it configurable. Just because the ISO thinks a week starts on Monday doesn’t mean everyone thinks the same. Most calendars I have seen start on Sunday and I have always viewed that a week started on a Sunday, and yes I’m European. Easy solution, as offered by almost every product with a calendar, make it configurable and then everyone can have it how it works best for them. |
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Wait, in which countries starts on Sunday? I've never heard of that. |
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ISO and sets international standards to bring order to chaos. Otherwise, we would still measure length not in meters, but in cubits. And the elbows are different for everyone: |
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And we should therefore measure all temperatures in kelvin? Write all dates in ISO format? The point is the users have different philosophies as to what the arbitrary start of the week is. End result. There are ISO standards for lots of things, and it turns out that there is an ISO Standard for the first day of week (news to me), but that just means software should support it. Doesn't mean it can't support other options that users want.
So, simple solution that solves all cases, make it configurable, it can't be that hard. |
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Only places that refuse to metrify will stick to absurdity like "Start the week on Sunday" when at the same time it's considered part of the WEEKEND!!! |
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Getting all pejorative about the choices of someone else doesn't help. I prefer Monday, but the person in the next room might prefer Sunday. It doesn't matter what the preference is, just that it is possible to choose. |
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While it doesn't bother me as much in the profile activity chart, it really bother me in the project's custom date picker: When all other calendars in your system are using monday, it's a common moment of confusion whenever I use the date picker to set the due date of some item, because it doesn't align with all other instances where that date occurs in my system. I always think I must be in the wrong month or something. I'm sure I've also made mistakes when doing this because I simply set it to the first day of some week and accidentally set it to Sunday when I meant to set it to the following Monday instead... No settings for this in the project settings or anywhere so far... :( |
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EXACTLY THAT is why it bothers me... GitHub knows my localization settings and they could've simply implemented these, but CHOSE NOT TO properly localize dates! |
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Any updates on this issue? |
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I guess GitHub wants to ignore it. |
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At least make it a user setting, GitHub! |
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+9001% |
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Yes. I do this customization for all my calendars that for some reason come with Sunday as first day ?!?! |
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yes 100%. |
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That will break "github contribution art" for those opting out of Sunday start. |
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I don't think that people making "github contribution art" should have priority over people who want Monday first. |
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I was searching for a setting just this morning! Only in the US do weeks start on Sunday. |
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EXACTLY! There is no rational reason to make an exception for <5% of all people on the planet not just the default but decide to not make it changeable... |
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The setting - sadly - doesn't exist, I don't know why, ask Microsoft.
Be wary of making such statements without checking. Europe (well most of it, a lot of people in the UK consider that the week starts on a Sunday - even if the Government doesn't, then there is Italy too), have the week start on a Monday, the rest of the world, well that varies. Some countries the first day of the week is Saturday: http://chartsbin.com/view/41671 And you wonder why, well..
It's only been Monday since 1971, care of the ISO, but that doesn't mean it has to be, just a recommendation. Now, why there isn't a setting for it in GitHub, well, that's a GitHub issue, and here we are. |
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How reliable is that chartsbin map? AFAIK most of China uses Monday as the first day on the week. And it has no data for A LOT of countries. This article from Wikipedia is probably more reliable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week Regardless, the start of a week should be a user-defined setting (with the default value determined by their chosen language/region). |
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FYI, UK considers Monday as the start of the week |
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Depends — if you went to school before 1988 then the week started on a Sunday, after that it started on a Monday (ISO 8601) so there is a die-hard aging population who isn't about to change their ways, just because some international organization thought they knew better. Of course there should be a setting for it, there is in my own software, because I like to let the users have the UI configured the way that make them feel comfortable, not the way I, or any government thinks is the right way to do things. |
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Upvote, this is really annoying. Can we have it resolved please? @github |
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I came here as well, please make it editable. |
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Joining the waitlist for settings option |
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Yes, that is a significant error and it seriously is bad! This shouldw be fixed as noone I know outside the USA uses Sunday as Week Starting Day. It should be possible to set this per one's profile globally so it's displayed correctly on one's profile OR at the very least every profile is displayed in compliance with said standard per default. How could this be so hard??? So either Github should offer a "regional formats" menu per-account and correctly convert to it OR they should comply to the ISO & Genevan Nomenclature Standards and use Monday-Sunday, MKSAK-Units [meter, kilo, second, ampere, kelvin] and properly note down Dates like DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY/MM/DD, HH:MM:SS+TZ as well as numbers like 429.001,69 .... It seriously bothers me!!! |
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This issue deserves to be tagged "Internationalization".... |
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I did not expect to not have this toggle feature already, it's 2023. I'd gladly do it for free - it's really annoying! |
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Reeeeally annoying when all other calendars I use are configured with Monday as the starting day, as is customary (and veeery customary) in Spain. We also tend to favor the 24H time format, for example. Please make this a setting. |
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Oh yes, 24 hour clock for the win! It's not even customary in Poland, I just like it. It should probably be a separate discussion though. |
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I think it's inexcuseable to not have localization settings that even windows 95 offered back in it's days... GitHub should at least allow people to properly configure correct formats, like DDMMYYYY/YYYYMMDD, 24-hour time format and weeks starting on Monday. There is no rational reason and only lazyness as excuse to not implement this !!! |
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Yes it is important. No, it is not critical. It creates a mild inconvenience to a major number of users who are used to the first day starting on Monday. A slightly more annoying but less usual case (in business) is adding items spanning a weekend. It is also logically dumb to sandwich the working week within the weekend. However, even thought this lack of feature is only a mild inconvenience and annoyance, one would expect a world-leading service from a world-leading company to be able to provide such a simple and widely desirable quality of life feature to their service. It is also a mild insult to other cultures to basically say "we do it this way so tough". |
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It is a major inconvenience and causes massive loss of productivity because it messes up peoples' muscle memory.
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I am writing to support this motion! |
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Year 2024 has started and GitHub still doesn't have an option to start weeks on Monday. |
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No, because they're lazy... |
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still unchanged in 2025 |
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Hey GitHub & Microsoft, instead of forcing everyone to pay for an extra keyboard key noone asked for how about you get your localization basics right this year? It's frustrating and annoying to see you forcing bad and wrong formats down the throat of everyone! plzfix |
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I hate MMDDYYYY or any variant thereof. Wrong on so many levels. |
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+1 I could understand YYYYMMDD or DDMMYYYY but there's no reason to do MMDDYYYY or MMDD... After all even in the USA people say "4th of July" not "July 4th"... |
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Pretty please @microsoft & @github :) |
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+1 It's not as if i18n / l18n is a completely novel concept to either of them! This is something they iron'd out before 1995 in Windows... |
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Would love to this request to change the "first day of week" format being implemented too! Would be great to have feature integrated into the "Contribution settings" on the top right of the contribs graph: This feature would enhance user experience and personalization for the GH profile, along with internalization. |
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Well, almost 2025 now. Still not solved or addressed even. |
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Come on! Get an intern to take this up! Just commenting again to keep the thread active! Please fix! |
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Well, US thinks they are the center of the world, so it fits... 😆 |
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It is wider than just the calendar. It is across the site. Internationalisation is a thing, and you should use the browser's preference, thus removing any requirement for people to see the site the way someone else prefers to see it. "Organization", "favorite", "color", "center" are everywhere, and I'd like to see those words spelled as they are in Australia. A UK English option would be a good first step. |
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I don't expect them to i18n the languague, but date, time and number formats are a solved problem and it's trivial for GitHub to solve it:
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Why this is still not a setting in 2025? |
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Because GitHub doesn't care and Microsoft (who owns them) doesn't care that they don't care either. Which is really really strange. It's as if they don't want to fix it on principal just to screw with everyone. I suspect this Issue won't be fixed in my lifetime. |
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Any update on this @github @github-actions ? |
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Changelog and roadmap don't mention this issue yet. |
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Any ETA for fixing this issue? |
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Just accept that Microsoft don't care, and TBH given the less than useful nature of the GitHub art, I don't think they are ever going to fix this. |
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In the vast majority of countries in the world (and therefore for the vast majority of developers), the day of the week begins with "Monday". But in countries like the US, the day of the week starts with "Sunday", that is, with the idea of the bible.
Github is a company that has a significant influence on developers from all over the world, the company displays a calendar where the day of the week starts with "Sunday".
To resolve an old dispute, an international organization introduced the international date and time standard ISO 8601 clause 2.2.8., where the day of the week begins with "Monday".
Why doesn't Github follow the generally accepted international standard? Not accepting international norms is building a new tower of Babel and chaos (it's just not professional).
I suggest that Github reconsider its calendar policy and number the beginning of the week according to the international standard, from Monday.
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