PencilTime guide

How Date Labels and First Day settings work in PencilTime

PencilTime can follow your device's regional calendar settings or use app-specific choices for planner date labels and the first day of the week.

First Day setting

Use First Day when you want planner weeks to start on a specific weekday. You can follow the iOS system default or choose a weekday such as Sunday or Monday just for PencilTime.

Date Labels setting

Date Labels controls the language used for month and weekday names on planner templates. Choose English to keep planner date labels in English, or Device Language to follow the first language in iOS Preferred Languages.

Where iOS settings fit

• iOS First Day of Week lives in Settings > General > Language & Region.
• iOS Preferred Languages controls what PencilTime uses when Date Labels is set to Device Language.
• PencilTime refreshes planner pages and calendar tabs after these settings change.

What Date Labels does not do

Date Labels changes planner month and weekday names. It does not translate every app button, menu, or system interface element.