Thanks for your effort to help improve Ubuntu by pointing at this aspect
of user preferences!

Indeed there is a suitable GUI for the purpose, namely the "Regional
Formats" tab in Language Support. If you for instance prefer the US
conventions for dates and times (weeks begin on Sunday), you pick the
en_US locale, etc.

Actually I would argue against adding such a control to the Time & Date
settings module. Language Support's "Regional Formats" tab - and its
successor in Precise - is there for a reason, and when a user selects a
region for controlling this kind of settings, s/he can be assumed to
expect that the choice is effective all over the desktop. In other
words, typically I don't think that app specific UIs that override the
user's choice in Language Support is a good idea. Btw, the existing
control for setting 12-hour or 24-hour time is superfluous IMO.

How about dealing with this bug report by simply adding a link from the
Time & Date module to the central desktop tool for regional formats
settings?

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  No GUI option to week-starting day

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