Date Picker Calendars across the app should have a start day of Sunday (edited)

RobWilk

In the United States, every month-calendar (be it a calendar you buy at the calendar store at the malls this time of year, or even Google Calendar if that's your preferred online calendar) has Sunday as the first day of the week. In this calendar, Wednesday should be smack in the middle of the week.

For whatever reason, the calendars on the app were reverted such that Monday is the first day of the week.

I had them fix this before here:

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/3405/sunday-start-day-for-calendars-ability-to-set-a-custom-start-day-edited

But they recently decided to change it, and are not honoring the current status of that idea post.

In the USA, Sunday is considered the first day of the week (I say in the USA because this varies by what programmers might call a locale, a country-specific customization). Yes, other countries have different standards. Also, business calendars may have different standards based on what a business day is, but consumer calendars are not like that.

Right now Simplifi is the only calendar i am aware of online or off that uses Monday as the start day, and has thursday as the middle of the week.

I ask for your vote to end the insanity. I cannot believe I have to re-do an idea post.

-Rob

RobWilk

Here's an example:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52365194/how-to-get-the-first-day-of-week-for-a-certain-locale-country

Note how in the first answer when it retrieves the 1st day of the week for english-US, it returns Sunday.

Follow the country's locale. Anything else is a bug.

RobWilk

My title was improperly edited —

This is now an international app.

I said it should be Sunday across the app for USA users.

Other countries should have whatever is appropriate for that country, as determined from the locale settings.

-Rob

Coach Natalie

@RobWilk, thanks for the feedback!

Since the part about USA users is in the description, and something like this would likely be a universal change, we will leave the title as-is for now. We try to keep Idea posts more general so our product team can review feedback regarding the request from a larger spectrum.

Thanks for understanding, and have a great weekend!

RobWilk

It could be a Universal change, but since this is dynamic software, it should retrieve the start day of the week from the operating system using the locale settings. Depending on what the user's country and language is, it is dynamically retrievable as to what the right start day of the week is. It wouldn't need to be hard coded to.a particular day for all users, software is smart like that (or should be).

I know you're going home within an hour or so - Enjoy your weekend (both of you). If I have more complaints, i'll bug Coach Kristina on the weekend :→.

-Rob

Jenny T

Please change this back to Sunday as start of the week. This unexpected change really threw me off when I was updating dates on transactions yesterday! The day of the week is the most helpful identifier for me when I update dates. I had already mostly stopped updating dates in app because the date picker doesn't include the day of the week and now the calendar in web requires me to pay close attention because it's not the standard Sun-Sat format. :(