Calendar Error

I have 2 calendars entitled US Holidays and Holidays in the United States that I can choose (perhaps inherited from YEARS of using the Palm Datebook and importing the data. (BTW the app Calendar 5 by https://readdle.com/ is very similar to the Palm Datebook....)

The 1st includes foreign holidays...the latter seems to only have Holidays in the United States, though it isn’t very complete I.e. no Memorial Day.

I will probably just add Holidays I consider important to that Holidays in The United States Calendar and be done with it....

however, I, too would like to DELETE any “holiday” that is foreign, and therefore, irrelevant to me in the US Holidays calendar, but surprisingly, Apple doesn’t allow that option!

It's an international holiday that is celebrated in the US. The same as Christmas, Easter. Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, etc. It doesn't have to be a US created holiday to be included, only a holiday celebrated in the US.

Portefoi13 wrote:

You seem to not understand the difference between what a US Holiday is and what a holiday celebrated mainly in a different country is. Holi “...is a Hindu spring festival celebrated on the *Indian Subcontinent*...”. -from Wikipedia.

While Wikipedia is not an authoritative source, when you quote it don't quote it out of context. This is the FULL introduction from Wikipedia (emphasis added):

Holi is a Hindu spring festival celebrated on the Indian subcontinent, also known as the "festival of colours".^[7][1][8] It signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, end of winter, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships.^[9][10] It is also celebrated as a thanksgiving for a good harvest.^[9][10] It lasts for a night and a day, starting on the evening of the Purnima (Full Moon day) falling in the Vikram Samvat Hindu Calendar ^[11] month of Phalguna, which falls somewhere between the end of February and the middle of March in the Gregorian calendar. The first evening is known as Holika Dahan or Chhoti Holiand the following day as Holi, Rangwali Holi, Dhuleti, Dhulandi,^[12] or Phagwah.^[13]

Holi is an ancient Hindu religious festival which has become popular with non-Hindus in many parts of South Asia, as well as people of other communities outside Asia.^[9] In recent years the festival has spread to parts of Europe and North America as a spring celebration of love, frolic, and colours.^[14][15][16]

seattleCubano wrote:

This isn’t a US Holiday, so i’m not sure where the rationale comes from.

I guess you haven't read any of this thread, you just jumped in with both feet - and got stuck in the mud.

There is no such thing as a US Holiday*. There are holidays that are observed in the US, and the "US Holidays" named calendar includes holidays that are commonly observed in the US. Holi is certainly observed in the US, by many millions of people. So is Eid al-Fitr, which you probably haven't discovered yet. And Passover. And, oh yes, Easter.

"US Holidays" is thus a contraction of "Some holidays and other events that are observed in the US, both religious and non-religious, plus a few events that are neither and are not even holidays." It's much easier to just say US Holidays.

*The US Government does not have the authority to declare any holidays. The best they can do is, as an employer, give their employees certain days off - 11, actually. But this only applies to Federal employees. Many employers also give those days off, but not all, and there is no requirement for any employer to give any days off. And some employers let their employees choose the days they wish to take off.

Is there a way to remove certain holidays without turning all the holidays off?
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I wish you could subscribe to US Holidays but also have the ability to delete the ones you don't want.

jrussell1179 wrote:

I wish you could subscribe to US Holidays but also have the ability to delete the ones you don't want.

You can submit your wish here… Feedback - macOS - Apple

Lol it’s not an error. It’s actually a Hindu holiday.

There are many non-us holidays now showing up on my calendar... so many that I guess I will UN-subscribe... not sure why apple made the decision to add vice just adding another calendar option called - "every holiday anyone can dream up".. APPLE - can't you fix this. Making it harder to be an apple person when they do goofy stuff like this... FIX IT APPLE...

“US holidays” isn’t sufficiently specific though. There are US Federal holidays, of which there are only ten, and Easter Sunday (to cite one popular example) isn’t among them. When Apple inadvertently omitted it from “US Holidays” you’d think the world came to an end.

Perhaps the problem is that it’s inappropriately named.

MadBum_40 wrote:

Why do I keep seeing this about Easter? Easter is definitely there. It falls on April 1st this year.

Because, for a week or so, it wasn't there and lots of people got their knickers in a twist about it.

Hard to believe, I know, but for some of us Easter holds greater significance than April Fool's Day 😮. A calendar is supposed to be a convenient tool for planning, and since Easter falls on a different day each year one would expect a computer calendar to provide that information at a glance. I do newsletters for my church and when I went to make a quick check on Easter day I found nothing. Fortunately I have a paper calendar hanging on my wall so I didn't have to rely on some flaky computer app.

I still would like to have a way to eliminate certain items without turning off the entire holiday calendar. A truly customizable calendar... what a concept in the 21st century! Is this too much to ask of Apple's programmers?

usernamechallenged wrote:

Hard to believe, I know, but for some of us Easter holds greater significance than April Fool's Day 😮.

Yes, and the Winter Solstice holds more meaning for me than both. So, when I'm doing my planning, I look up when it is and put it in the calendar.

usernamechallenged wrote:

Hard to believe, I know, but for some of us Easter holds greater significance than April Fool's Day 😮.

And for some of us, it doesn't. Easter holds NO significance for me. So therefore it should not be on the calendar. Holi DOES have significance for me, because my development team is in India, and it's important for me to know when they will be celebrating instead of working. Good Friday holds significance for me, because in NYC it is a day when I can park on the street since alternate side parking regulations are suspended (likewise for Holi, also, BTW, and all Moslem, Asian, Jewish and Christian holidays), however, I don't need it on the US Holidays calendar because I subscribe to the NYC DOT alternate side calendar.

I was perfectly happy when the US Holidays calendar had no religious holidays, and I wish Apple had left it that way. Instead I had subscribed to the calendars I needed. But Apple caved to the Christian Mafia. Too bad.

And even if Easter DOES have significance for you, I find it impossible to believe that there is a Christian in the US who does not know when Easter is. Unless they never go to church.

Wow, so many people getting their knickers in a twist, as someone put it earlier! The point is not that Easter or Kwanzaa or solstice or Holi or Whitsuntide Day should or should not be included on a calendar. If every conceivable cultural celebration and sectarian holiday were taken into account there would be room for nothing else. I just want to be able to personalize MY calendar without having to install a third party app.

As far as the snotty remark that it is impossible to believe that a Christian doesn't know when Easter is unless they never go to church, in case you hadn't noticed, it is different every year and, yes I have to look it up every year when I am preparing newsletters and making plans for Easter activities! Can people post a query without it turning into a political SJW three-ring circus?