[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #28344: Remove "Week Starts On" setting UI

[WordPress Trac]

#28344: Remove "Week Starts On" setting UI
--------------------------------+---------------------------------
 Reporter:  markjaquith         |       Owner:  ocean90
     Type:  enhancement         |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  low                 |   Milestone:  4.4
Component:  Options, Meta APIs  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal              |  Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  has-patch           |     Focuses:  ui, administration
--------------------------------+---------------------------------

Comment (by pderksen):

 Following up on some older comments...

 [comment:6 mordauk]:
 > This affects me personally. I have an event calendar plugin that uses
 this setting to determine what day to show first on the calendar view.
 Based on the number of support tickets I get from users asking how the day
 can be changed to Monday (or to Sunday), I can definitely say it's used by
 a lot of users.
 >
 > I've had users in all parts of the world want to change this away from
 the default, so I'm not sure basing it on the charset is sufficient.
 >
 > I love the idea of simplifying WP core settings, but if I need to add a
 settings page to my plugin to give users the option to change this, it
 would make me a little sad. I certainly will if needed though.

 Same goes for [https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-calendar-events/ my
 calendar plugin]. Right now it's actually breaking the implementation of
 our own "start of week" override option which is working in WP 4.3.

 [comment:12 nacin]:
 > What I want to know is why "Sunday" isn't the default in the en_US
 build. This is only used in core for the Calendar widget, and I cannot
 recall ever seeing a calendar in the U.S. that starts on a Monday. Yes,
 ISO sets Monday to be the first day of the week. Anyway.

 Did I miss the answer here? Here in the U.S. I've always been confused by
 this as well, and now with the option going away, I think this will
 confuse many U.S. users with any calendar plugin (or the built-in WP
 calendar widget).

--
Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28344#comment:47>
WordPress Trac <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/>
WordPress publishing platform