How do i set the first day of week so that startofweek() returns Monday instead of Sunday?

[Peter Freak]

Server and Local computer both have same correct locale and have Monday as first day of week.

Using JIRA 5.2.1

[Peter Freak · Accepted solution]

Australia locale appears set as Sunday first day.

To override, need to set JVM parameters on Jira service to language and country that is set for Monday e.g. Germany

-Duser.language=de

-Duser.country=DE

Make sure there are no spaces after the parameters.

[Renjith Pillai]

Stress on that last line "Make sure there are no spaces after the parameters." ;)

[Dave C]

To add to this, it depends on the Java locale that is configured - by default Java picks up the locale of the operating system, and subsequently JIRA picks that up. If we take a look at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/temporal/WeekFields.html, it shows us:

• ISO-8601 starts on Monday.
• Everything else starts on Sunday.

I haven't been able to find a definitive list of which locales are ISO-8601 - it appears Germany is one. 

[Mizan]

Try endOfWeek(-5d) or endOfWeek(-6d)

[Rebecca B. Weiss]

I agree with Mizan.  If you want the current week to be Mon-Sun, use "startOfWeek(1d), endOfWeek(1d)".  If you want the previous week to be Mon-Sun, use "(startOfWeek(-6d), endOfWeek(-6d))", and so on.    Easy!

[Manupriya S]

Hi @Rebecca B. Weiss  could you please suggest what should I write in query to view the list of Jira tasks which have been updated on just a Day ago but it should not show the results on monday if the ticket was updated on friday. That is i need to avoid weekends.

[Radek Antoniuk]

Tracked here I guess: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-36007

[Naren]

Please go through this ticket, this includes steps to change the start day of the week to Monday.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-9048

NOTE: Please test this activity on our test environment and make sure you backup the files before make any changes

[Peter Freak]

My files are a bit different to what is referenced in JRA-9048, so perhaps i need to remove the '-1' ???

the macros.vm has $firstDay = $currentCalendar.firstDayOfWeek - 1

the datepicker2.jsp has firstDay : <%= Calendar.getInstance(locale).getFirstDayOfWeek()-1 %

[Naren]

All you need to do is -

• Go to <install-jira>/atlassian-jira/webapps/includes/lib/calendar.
• Open the Calendar.js file.
• Look for the line -

  this.firstDayOfWeek = typeof firstDayOfWeek == "number" ? firstDayOfWeek : Calendar._FD; // 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, etc.

• Remoe the above line and add the below line instead -

this.firstDayOfWeek = 1; 

Restart your JIRA and check whether you can see the start date ofy of the week set to Monday. This worked for me!

[Peter Freak]

This has changed the issue due date picker so it now shows Mon-Sun correctly, but the startofweek() function is still set to Sunday

[Peter Freak]

hmm query for Due = StartOfWeek() still returns issue with due date on Sunday