April 2012 Entries

How to change the first day of the week on Windows 7

Recently I was working to populate a Date Dimension table and I discovered that the script used was basing the first of the week on my local machine. This was fine except I wanted to line up my weeks against our financial system which hand the end of the week on Friday, not Saturday is it looks like on a normal calendar. Basically making the effective change below: To do this, I performed these steps: Open control panel Go to Clock/Language/Region Under Date and Time, click Set the date and time...