What’s up with the US holidays calendar

The way to remove it from the calendar is to not use Apple’s provided holiday calendar and find or make one that suits a person’s individual preferences. If a person subscribes to the Apple US Holidays calendar then they cannot pick or choose which of those holidays to see, it’s an all or nothing deal.

But as has been said, there are countless holiday calendars or apps out there that may allow for further customization than the built in one.

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/

“US Holidays” does not refer only nor specifically to the US Federal Government Holiday Schedule. Some third party calendar apps do offer a US Federal Holiday schedule as a discrete holiday series. And technically the US Federal Government Holidays are not national holidays since Congress only has powers to create holidays for federal institutions. So strictly speaking, the USA has no legally recognized national holidays.

And there are far more holidays commonly recognized throughout the USA than merely the Federal Government ones.

It’s one of many holidays included with the US holidays calendar. It’s an all or nothing thing. You’d need to go to ‘calendars’ on the bottom middle of your calendar and unsubscribe from the US Holidays then go out and look for one that is customized to your preferences, or go out and enter all of them yourself so you only have the ones you want.

There are hundreds of calendar apps in the App Store, with numerous calendar subscription options. I’d bet however that ever single subscription calendar is going to have some days included that some people will not want or like.

If you really want a personally selected list of days, your only real option is to put those days into your calendar yourself.

Since there literally is no such thing as a legal (as in enacted by Congress) National Holiday in the USA, subscription “US Holiday” calendars will include whatever the content creator chooses.

jrdaskibumm wrote:

Because the US government only has 11 federal holidays. The rest are holidays person may celebrate but are not the 11 officially recognized federal holidays

Those are nothing more than the US Federal Employee Holiday Schedule. They are NOT National Holidays. Congress cannot enact a National Holiday - it’s outside of their purview. Nobody other than Federal Government Institutions - not one other single person, company, group, organization, or State - is required or mandated to observe or even recognize any of the US Federal Employee Holidays.

They may be commonly recognized as holidays, but thay are not universally observed within the USA and never have been. The USA, in a legal and literal sense, has no National Holidays. Not even Inauguration Day.

Those 11 days are no more or less a ”US Holiday” than Chinese New Year (celebrated by US Chinese residents and citizens for over 200 years), St. Patrick’s Day, Cinco de Mayo, or any other commonly recognized holiday.

I looked on my ipad and I don’t have any of those and I am subscribed to us holidays. Perhaps you want to look for US Federal holidays. As in ‘days the banks and post office are closed’

You just start without the US holiday calendar and enter the particular days you want to see on your calendar, no tricks, its easy to do.

Try subscribing to this calendar. It works well for me. 😊

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

jrdaskibumm wrote:

I understand that what I wanted to know was why they changed to old list to add all the others. Apparently the PC police have taken over Apple. I have built my own repeating holidays for now. Once I figure out how to create a calendar file I will upload it to Caldav.

I personally use Week Cal and have for many years now. It will sync and display multiple calendars (mine shows my work exchange calendar which includes our company holiday schedule, my personal iCloud calendar, a group work calendar, and Week Cal subscription calendars for my local weather, Week Cal’s version of US Holidays (which does have some differences from both Apple’s and Microsoft’s), and one for Public Canadian Holidays). You can then custom color code the combined displays of multiple calendars.

Week calendar has a big subscription calendar store - many are free or a single one time payment (e.g. my weather calendar was a single one time lifetime charge of a couple of bucks).

Week Calendar for iPad by WeekCal B.V. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/week-calendar-for-ipad/id434143491?mt=8

See my hotly-contested post with a link to a calendar that you can subscribe to which has all of the "normal" US holidays. I know, I'm going to offend some people's delicate sensibilities by using that word, but hopefully the quotations around it will protect them from harm. 😉

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As others have suggested a person could use the present US holidays calendar as a guide, then make their own holiday appointments that repeat each year. They will just need to research some of them each year, such as Easter, the date of which is based upon the date of the equinox full moon.

There are others such as MLK day, Labor Day, Memorial day which are the ____ day of the month....such as third monday on January or whatever it is. Tax day can move from year to year based upon the holiday that’s observed in Washington, D.C. where the city and federal offices are closed in observance of Emancipation day. As well as when Veteran’s day is observed vs the day itself (same with July 4th and the Christmas holidays which may be observed on a weekday when the real day falls on a weekend.)

It’d just take some online research to find out exactly how each holiday’s date is determined.

Or as has been suggested there are plenty of calendar apps out there that may better suit an individual’s need.

Maybe this is because religious holidays do not belong to any one country nor does the moon aka Lunar Calendar. There are over 1B Hindus in the world and 1.6B Muslims hence Holi day or Ramadan. I’m not religious but im not going to get upset if I see other religious holidays on my calendar. Any maybe because over 1B people in the world celebrate Chinese New Year. And yes some of all the aforementioned live right here in the USA. If you don’t want to see holidays then remove it from your calendar