cal in Ubuntu Oneiric ignores locale for start of week

[JamesE]

Being British, I am using the en_GB locale, so I would expect cal to display months where Monday appears as the first day in the week. Instead, it displays Sunday as the first day of the week, thus:

   February 2012
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
          1 2 3 4
 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29

For me, the LANG variable is set to en_GB.UTF-8

It seems that cal might be hardcoded to a US locale where Sunday is always the first day of the week.

Note that this only appears to have happened on Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: bsdmainutils 8.2.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 23 19:43:12 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: bsdmainutils
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

confirming this regression for precise when compared to lucid

Lucid (works as it should)
$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 cal
    August 2013
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
             1 2 3
 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
$ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 cal
    August 2013
Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So
          1 2 3 4
 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31

Precise (buggy):
$ LC_ALL=C cal
    August 2013
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
             1 2 3
 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
$ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 cal
    August 2013
So Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa
             1 2 3
 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

What makes this worse is that "-M" to force the start of the week to Monday does not work as is documented in bug 908233.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

nominating for this to be (eventually) fixed in precise.

Does anybody have a box running raring or saucy to test this? Murata-san, can you try this, please?

[Andrés Necochea (yayopoint)]

I'm using Trusty and the bug is not solved :(