fabrica64
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Q: Holidays Calendar switched to Hong Kong!

Today I updated Mavericks to 10.9.4 and the Calendar application started showing the Honk Kong holidays calendar instead of the US holidays

 

Apparently there's no way to configure which calendar appears when selecting the "Show Holidays calendar" check box in Calendar's General Preferences...


My Mac Book Pro is correctly set ot the US locale and if I open Maps it gets the correct location (more than 10000 miles from Hong Kong...)

 

I seached through all the .plist files and Calendars data and nowhere found any reference to Hong Kong

 

Is there a way to configure the default holidays calendar? How Mavericks select the country?

Posted on Jul 1, 2014 6:26 PM

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  • by dianeoforegon,

    dianeoforegon dianeoforegon Jul 1, 2014 8:19 PM in response to fabrica64
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    Jul 1, 2014 8:19 PM in response to fabrica64

    Another user reported they had a Mexico holiday calendar. First report I had seen but now you are reporting similar. I suspect some glitch in either OS X or in iCloud.

     

    Delete the calendar and report it to Apple Feedback so it can be logged and put in the queue to be fixed.

     

    Delete a calendar in browser:

      1. Click Edit below the sidebar.

      2. Click the Delete button  to the right of the calendar’s name, then click Delete.

     

    Delete calendar in Calendar

    Control-Click (Right-click) on calendar and select delete.

  • by fabrica64,

    fabrica64 fabrica64 Jul 2, 2014 3:37 AM in response to dianeoforegon
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    Jul 2, 2014 3:37 AM in response to dianeoforegon

    The holidays calendar that shows up when I click "Show Holidays calendar" is not on iCloud and appears only inside Calendar on my Mac. Inside browser I don't see any holiday calendars, while on my iPhone I see the correct US Holidays calendar.

     

    When I access iCloud in the browser I also don't see any subscribed calendar I set up on the Mac that were correctly propagated to the iPhone.

     

    I've tried to delete the Hong Kong calendar on my Mac but doing that simply deselect the "Show Holiday calendar" option and when I select it again HK calendar shows up again.

  • by dianeoforegon,

    dianeoforegon dianeoforegon Jul 2, 2014 9:32 AM in response to fabrica64
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    Jul 2, 2014 9:32 AM in response to fabrica64

    In Calendar, choose Calendar > Preferences, then click General.

     

    Select "Show Holidays calendar." The calendar shows the national holidays for your region.

     

    To change your region, choose Apple menu > System Preferences > Language & Region, and choose a different region.

    Then in Calendar, choose Calendar > Preferences, click General, then deselect and reselect "Show Holidays calendar."

     

    Let me know if this helps

  • by fabrica64,

    fabrica64 fabrica64 Jul 2, 2014 2:22 PM in response to dianeoforegon
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    Jul 2, 2014 2:22 PM in response to dianeoforegon

    First of all thanks for the help!

     

    I did some more testing and I found the cause. In "System Preferences -> Language and Region" I have set US as the region but I changed the currency to Euro. If I put back US Dollar I see the correct US Holidays in the Calendar, but if I put any other currency I see the Hong Kong Holidays

     

    It's only the currency that matters because changing the Measurements units to metric or selecting Monday as First day of week does not change the Holidays calendar

     

    My solution was to subscribe to the US Holidays (https://p11-calendars.icloud.com/holidays/us_en.ics) in iCloud (File -> New Calendar Subscription) and disable the Show Holidays calendar check box

     

    In the iPhone that's not happening because you can't select a different currency for each region

  • by dianeoforegon,

    dianeoforegon dianeoforegon Jul 2, 2014 2:29 PM in response to fabrica64
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    Jul 2, 2014 2:29 PM in response to fabrica64

    Great catch!

     

    BTW, there is an app in the Mac App Store (MAS) called Convert It (free) you might want to try.

  • by romanserazhiev,

    romanserazhiev romanserazhiev Jul 7, 2014 6:42 PM in response to fabrica64
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    Jul 7, 2014 6:42 PM in response to fabrica64

    Same thing here. My region is New Zealand. I have recently noticed that I have Canadian holidays. Tried to switch from NZ to US and back, and now I have HK holidays!

     

    I don't have Mac, so there is no way to unsubscribe from this calendar, no such option on iPhone or iCloud.

  • by dianeoforegon,

    dianeoforegon dianeoforegon Jul 7, 2014 7:33 PM in response to romanserazhiev
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    Jul 7, 2014 7:33 PM in response to romanserazhiev

    Log into iCloud in your browser.

     

    https://www.icloud.com/

     

      1. Click Edit below the sidebar.

      2. Click the Delete button  to the right of the calendar’s name, then click Delete.

  • by romanserazhiev,

    romanserazhiev romanserazhiev Jul 7, 2014 7:42 PM in response to dianeoforegon
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    Jul 7, 2014 7:42 PM in response to dianeoforegon

    Here is the screenshot, that it is not in my iCloud:

     

    2014-07-08 14-36-15 iCloud Calendar - Google Chrome.png

     

    In iPhone I have it, and there is no delete button it I click on "i" or Edit:

     

    image.png

  • by dianeoforegon,

    dianeoforegon dianeoforegon Jul 7, 2014 7:44 PM in response to romanserazhiev
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    Jul 7, 2014 7:44 PM in response to romanserazhiev

    If you click on the I by the calendar on phone, does that give you the option to delete?

  • by romanserazhiev,

    romanserazhiev romanserazhiev Jul 7, 2014 8:19 PM in response to dianeoforegon
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    Jul 7, 2014 8:19 PM in response to dianeoforegon

    Nope :-( Here is the screenshot after I clicked on "i" next to HK Holidays. I scrolled to the very bottom.

     

    image (1).png

  • by dianeoforegon,

    dianeoforegon dianeoforegon Jul 7, 2014 8:28 PM in response to romanserazhiev
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    Jul 7, 2014 8:28 PM in response to romanserazhiev

    Unless you know someone with a Mac so you could login to remove, all I can suggest is to send Apple feedback. While they won't acknowledge your feedback it can be logged and put in the queue to be fixed.

     

    http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

  • by romanserazhiev,

    romanserazhiev romanserazhiev Jul 7, 2014 8:32 PM in response to dianeoforegon
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    Jul 7, 2014 8:32 PM in response to dianeoforegon

    Yea, I was guessing I can do that only on Mac. I am happy with this "undeleteable" calendar only if it shows NZ holidays, not HK.

     

    Thanks for the help!

  • by fabrica64,

    fabrica64 fabrica64 Jul 8, 2014 4:39 AM in response to romanserazhiev
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    Jul 8, 2014 4:39 AM in response to romanserazhiev

    You can disable a calendar on the iPhone/iPad, just tap on the mark on the left of the red dot left of "HK Holidays" (on the opposite side of the "i") and the calendar will no more appear on the main window. It's not like deleting but is has the same effect

    You may then subscribe to NZ calendar, that's available at a URL like https://p11-calendars.icloud.com/holidays/us_en.ics (this URL is for the US holidays calendar), but subscriptions are only available on the Mac. Subscribing and deleting is not available on iOS and web iCloud, too difficult for Apple to port these functionalities

  • by Nicciww,

    Nicciww Nicciww Jul 11, 2014 12:48 AM in response to fabrica64
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    Jul 11, 2014 12:48 AM in response to fabrica64

    I have the exact same problem as romanserazhiev shows in his/her screenshots. HK calendar. My iphone is set to language English, with region Finland. Sigh.

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