What’s up with the US holidays calendar

Well, since a good proportion of African Slaves brought to the USA were followers of Islam, I’d imagine it has been celebrated by some in the USA for at least a hundred or more years. There were also Moors here long before the USA became the USA - they mostly migrated out of Spain where they were essentially persecuted and expelled. So at least as long as US Federal Employees have celebrated Christmas, which became a federal employee holiday in 1870.

The very label “US Holiday” is whatever anyone in the USA chooses to call it. If a US Citizen celebrates it, it is a “US Holiday” to them. There are zero official US National Holidays in this country - not one. Anyone, Apple Inc. included, can create a subscription calendar with whatever events they wish to include.

You can read a little bit about the more commonly observed Holidays in the USA at https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/

Kathy92881 wrote:

I just unsubscibed to the U.S. holidays and picked Yahoo U.S. holidays. That got rid of "holidays" like Eid al-Fitr which I have no idea what it even is.

We don't really care that you're only interested in Christian "holidays".

Kathy92881 wrote:

I just unsubscibed to the U.S. holidays and picked Yahoo U.S. holidays. That got rid of "holidays" like Eid al-Fitr which I have no idea what it even is.

Then this could be a learning opportunity for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Fitr

As Easter is the end of the Lenten fast for Christians, Eid al-Fitr is the end of the Ramadan fast for Muslims.

Kurt,

You are the one that needs to read the questions. My question involved the US Holidays name DISAPPEARING. It cannot be edited or deleted.

Any ideas? I thought not. More interesting to carry on the inane discussion about holidays.

jrdaskibumm wrote:

What the **** is up with the “US Holiday” calendar? When did holi, Cinco de Mayo, Ramadan and other non-US holidays get put on this calendar? Is there a calendar with the 11 US holidays one can subscribe too?

All of those are holidays celebrated by people who are citizens of the U.S. Why are they "non-US"?

I, too, was annoyed by all of the "weird" holidays popping up in my calendar, so I unsubscribed from Apple's "US Holidays" calendar. I found one that hits all of the "big" holidays, including Easter and other Christian holidays that people who aren't necessarily Christian or Catholic still like to see on their calendars.

webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics

Hope this helps some people!

Mactbc99 wrote:

Actually to me a US holiday is one recognized by most all employers and comes with a day off or extra pay if worked. Of course it depends on contracts and corporate rules. “Beginning of Ramadan“ doesn’t reflect a US Holiday. It is a religious holiday. Palm Sunday is a religious holy day but also not a US Holiday. Easter is a religious Holiday but also not a US Holiday. Check the post office or a bank for US Holidays. Apple seems to have their Holidays (US) confused with religious holidays.

Well, feel free to let Apple know: https://apple.com/feedback. Posting in this user to user forum where it will not be seen by anyone at Apple with authority to change it is a waste of time.

BTW, Before February 22 Apple's US Holidays calendar was just what you are asking for. But there was a huge outcry on social media about the fact that Easter was not on it, so Apple capitulated and added back religious holidays.

I have noticed this too. Why are these non-US Holidays included on a calendar named as such? The calendar should either be renamed (and I'll unsubscribe to it) or these other additions should be compiled in some other calendar.

I agree. My calendar is now littered with pointless holidays, many of which are either irrelevant or I never heard of. There NEEDS to be a way to edit this. I don’t need

Lunar New Year

Holi (?)

Orthodox Easter

First Day of Ramadan

Eid al-Fitr (?)

Juneteenth (?)

Eid al-Adha (?)

Ashura (?)

Diwali (?)

Etc

I’ve used this calander for years, this is all new and it’s cluttering it up.

How do I find/add a better calendar with less nonsense?

Trouble is, WHEN did this become a US holiday??? I’m sure it is an important date overseas but not so much here as to labeled a “US holiday”.

Remove the reference as a “US holiday” and this discussion will cease to be.

Yet create a “Islam Holiday” and stick it there.

Just not where you placed it

That's not true. I have several 11 of my own calendars and this one that I can't delete. I will click on "hide all" and then select the calendar that I want to view. Now instead of just clicking on "show all" to show my 11 calendars, I have to now also click on the holidays calendar to uncheck it. I know this is a first world problem, but again, my point is that we should be allowed to delete the calendar completely from our iphones/ipads.

jrdaskibumm wrote:

I agree so frustrated with PC mentality

Then you are free to tell it to another forum elsewhere on the web. Otherwise this forum is for questions regarding Apple products or services, not for personal views.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5952

KelvinSFC wrote:

This is indeed very annoying, which is the so-called “political correctness.”

And yet “political correctness” has nothing at all to do with what any American(s) choose to recognize as a holiday observed by some Americans, somewhere in the USA.

Not to mention as well that “political correctness” also has nothing at all to do with what a private person or a company chooses to put in their offered and purely optional subscription content.

Uncle_HairBall wrote:

Trouble is, WHEN did this become a US holiday??? I’m sure it is an important date overseas but not so much here as to labeled a “US holiday”.

Remove the reference as a “US holiday” and this discussion will cease to be.

Yet create a “Islam Holiday” and stick it there.

Just not where you placed it

I find it astonishing that any U.S. citizen of average intelligence would say something like this. Unless of course, you were brought up in a compound in Idaho with no access to the internet, books, newspapers or magazines and were home-schooled by someone using textbooks published in the 1860s.