Gnome: displaying calendar week numbers in the system calendar widget
It's as simple as
On the command line:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.calendar show-weekdate true
or with a GUI: sudo apt install gnome-tweaks
if you don't have it and open Tweaks:
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