I’m using Calendar App 41.0 on my L5 and I’ve noticed that the names of the month and the names of the days are in German, while the rest op the Calendar app uses English.
Is there a way to change them into English?
What locale have you set on your Librem 5? What locale do you want?
All was set to English (International).
Just to be sure I switched to a different locale and then back to English (International).
Now the Calendar App is completely in English (not partially).
Thanks 
And if you get German, you will also want the most-of-rest-of-the-world standard of starting the Monday column first, instead of Sunday.
P.S. There is a popular U.S. youtuber called German in Venice who happens to be in Germany at the moment. It would be funny if you could look him up. (Venice California.)
That seems pretty weird but I suppose it’s a “solution”. 
Presumably it’s a bug in the Calendar app but the workaround is fairly easy.
Pet hate of mine: Here (Oz) it defaults to starting on Sunday. So I change the locale and “recompile” the locale. I have to do that after each version upgrade i.e. worst case every 6 months, best case every 2 years.
To be honest, I have never looked to see which locales are defined to start on Sunday and which on Monday - but this is open source, so if ya don’t like it, you can change it.
English/Denmark is quite OK. It also fixes the date order.
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I am aware of that workaround but I have always been concerned that it might cause problems elsewhere to select such a misleading and different locale.
diff en_DK en_AU
shows a mass of differences when all I want to do is fix the starting day of week.
Good to have that workaround documented here though in case it helps someone.
My guess they’re all of South American and other latin-oriented countries (like Francophones) in Africa I think. Don’t know about Asia-Pacific but probably also the Francophones in SE Asia.
Actually, in my country (NL) the first day of the week is also Monday.
But for using the app on my L5 it’s not a big deal. I know I wont start working on Sunday. Monday it is and Monday it will be 
It is kind of odd that the week starts on a day that is part of what is called the “weekend,” not “week bookend.”
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Well, yes, but if you were designing a calendar system using logic, I am pretty sure it would look nothing like the one being discussed here.
My dislike is that, for example … it is not uncommon for me to be asked “Can you do X some time this weekend?”. I find it a poor user experience that the two relevant days that I have to look at are then split over two lines, one at the end of one line and one at the beginning of the next line - and a raft of related or similar scenarios.
So I just keep on editing the locale definition.
Maybe it is because NL was once Hapsurg Empire or even Napoleonic?
Switching my Locale worked but the setting did not survive a reboot.
My calendar app was partially back in the German language.
I applied this trick and it seems to be working now.
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