[Bug localedata/20747] es_VE first day of the week should be Monday

["carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20747

--- Comment #7 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to sourceware from comment #6)
> Around me, all Android phones' default calendar app have Monday as the first
> day.

On Android it's Settings->General->Start of Week, it's completely under user
control, with the default being Sunday.

e.g.
 638         if (startDay == Calendar.SATURDAY) {
 639             return Time.SATURDAY;
 640         } else if (startDay == Calendar.MONDAY) {
 641             return Time.MONDAY;
 642         } else {
 643             return Time.SUNDAY;
 644         }

I expect you've changed it to Monday on your phones.

In glibc this data is taken from the locale which is a combination of language,
culture, and geographic location.

> One of the most known calendars in Venezuela is "Calendario Polar", named
> after the largest beer brand (You can google image it if you want to see
> half naked ladies), shows Sunday as the first day for the 2008 edition but
> Monday as the first day for 2012, so there must have been a shift.

Can you reach out to them and ask them _why_ they changed their calender to
Lunes as the first day?

If we could justify the change it would make this easier to accept as change in
glibc.

For example Canada defines ISO 8601 as the national standard (CSA Z234.5:1989)
which says Monday is the first day of the week.

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