iCal 'Show Holidays calendar' not showing holidays in Australia after upgrading to Yosemite.

If you are using I cloud account and I cloud calendar configured , an article : iCloud: Change the language or time zone on iCloud.com

Change the time zone on iCloud.com

1. Go to Settings on iCloud.com, then click the current time zone below “Time Zone / Region (iWork only).”
2. Click the map near the place whose time zone you want to use.The time zone you selected and the name of a city near where you clicked are displayed at the bottom of the map. To pick a different city in the selected time zone, click the city name, then choose a different city.
3. Click Done.

Also , in system preferences > Date and time > make sure the box for set date and time is checked , click the drop down arrows and choose your correct continent .

In time zone check the box for set time zone automatically using current location .

And , in front of time zone : country time zone should be shown , and closest city should be shown .

I live in Norway, but use English as a primary language. So I had the same problem on my MacBook Pro. iPhone iCal was ok, on macOS wasn't. Had no national holidays calendar there. What I did:

1. I went to System Preferences -> Language & Region.

2. My region is Norway, so I left it that way.

3. My primary language is English. Left it that way.

4. I pressed '+' under Preferred Languages and added Norsk bokmål (in my case, 'cause I live here and I use that language and want the freakin' holidays). Did not changed it for the primary (so the calendar works either way - when you set your preferred 'holiday language' as a primary or as a secondary language).

5. cmd+q on Calendar app on mac.

6. Turn Calendar on and there they are.

It looks like Apple demands the language of the region you need the holidays for as at least a secondary language. It needs to be present. Hope it helps.

Same issue here. Yosemite 10.10.5 and no holidays.

I checked the Language & Region setting, and on MacBookPro, with English as language and United States as region, the US holidays show up. On iMac, nothing. Fortunately, I found the Language setting of English (U.S.) and once set, the US holidays showed up in Calendar. Strange.

@owsters,

i have been having this problem for a year, spent huge amount of time trying to find a solution and was so frustrated. thanks to your post it worked. here is again a description of my problem and the fix:

- i am living in germany

- my region is set to germany

- my only preferred language is english, which is set to primary

so the german holiday calendar wouldn't show up no matter how ofter i clicked under calendar->preferences.

what i did:

- added german as a preferred language and put it as primary

- restarted

- unchecked show holiday calendar under preferences

- restarted the calendar

- checked show holiday calendar

and the german holiday calendar appeared.

then i went to language and region, put back englisch as my primary language and restarted. voilà!

I'm seeing this too, on a fresh install of 10.10.1. The tick box in preferences is there for "Show Holidays calendar", but toggled on or off, the calendar does not appear. I can see Birthdays, and I can see Events and Birthdays for Facebook, along with my iCloud and Google calendars.

hello

same thing on my yosemite system.

i think this bug started to occur after the last update (10.10.1)

before that, the holidays caldendar (as determined by Region) was working on yosemite.

holidays calendar DOES work correctly in iOS 8.1.1 on iPhone, even with Region and Current Location and Language Preference all being different.

I had the same issue and after spending hours trying to figure it out I've figured the solution is to go to View and select Show All-Day Even

THANK YOU!!!!! I've been trying to get birthdays to show in my iCal for weeks - since it suddenly and mysteriously stopped. As you suggested, I just went to Calendar>View>Show All-Day Events and presto! all the birthdays listed in my Contacts suddenly reappeared! I don't know why googling this problem doesn't provide this easy solution. Thanks again!

Nope. Doesn't work. In the preferences of the Calendar app I've toggled on the holidays (picture 1) but in the calendar itself it doesn't show up (picture 2).

Anyone a solution? :-)

Thanks!

Sander

So, basically. There is still no solution, eh. Guess we'll have to add this to the long list of quirky issues...

Cheers,

S

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/pro-tip-troubleshooting-10-known-os-x-yosemi te-issues/

http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/the-worst-bugs-in-os-x-yosemite-and-how-to-fix-the m-1652690924

Same thing here on OS X 10.10.3

It was not corrected in the latest release. I now subscribe to a feed from www.officeholidays.com until Apple fixes this. I guess they are busy building a car...???

Hi guys,

I had this problem too. I resolved it by going into System Preferences > Language & Region and making sure the primary language was "English (U.K.)" under primary languages (i.e. at the top of the list of preferred languages).

I always had this set before, but I think upgrading to Yosemite changed this setting to "English" (without the "U.K.) which I guess is a generic "countryless" language. I believe the holidays setting in the calendar needs to know which country's holidays to display.

Hope this helps this waiting for a fix...

I've got the exact same problem and have tried changing the primary language to English (U.K.) but unfortunately this hasn't solved the issue. I'm still not seeing the holiday calendar in my iCal.

Correction: I've managed to get it working again! I had the language set to English U.K. but the region set to Netherlands. When I changed the region to match the language (United Kingdom) and restarted Calendar I suddenly had the UK holidays in there. I quit Calendar, changed the region to Netherlands, started Calendar again and then unticked and ticked the Holidays Calendar setting. And its back! 🙂

I guess we shouldn't make it too hard on Apple, lets all decide to use one language and one region.... 😉

Thanks Owsters and Jhieminga, your suggestions didn't work for me but were a good try. My workaround for this was to subscribe to the US Holiday calendar, https://p24-calendars.icloud.com/holiday/US_en.ics