This is something I’ve only just spotted, probably because I’m actually stating to use a calendar for the first time ever !

If you fire up the calendar on your iPhone, what is the first day of the week? Is it a Sunday, or a Monday?

I currently have iCal set to start a week on a Sunday, as that’s how my work does things, so it just makes sense. That’s all well and good, everything’s laid out just as it should be - until I use my iPhone.

For some unbeknown reason, the guys in Cupertino saw fit to start the days of the week on a Monday. That’s all well and good if that’s how you work, but a complete pain in the posterior if you don’t. The best bit? You can’t directly change it !

After a spot of Googling (is that even a word?!) it turns out there is a way to change the starting day for a week, but it’s not ideal.

If you have a gander under Settings->General->International you’ll see you can change the ‘Region Format’ to whatever you like. Change it to United States, you get a week starting with Sunday. Change it to UK and you get a week starting with Monday ! WHY!? How dificult would it have been to either a) give us a simple option like in iCal, or b) make it sync such options when it pulls all your details through from your desktop calendar software?

So it looks like I have a choice. Either I have my weeks starting when they shouldn’t, or have all my measurements, times etc show up as US ones. Thanks Apple. Nice one !

Rant over.