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?
iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.1, iTunes 11
Just figured out how to. The only way to get rid of these newly added holidays showing On the Apple calendar is to Unsubribe/uncheck the Apple ‘US Holidays’ that now comes standard in IOS apparently, and then subscribe to a 3rd party calender that doesn't have every holiday throughout the world. My only interest in doing this was to have the minimal standard Holidays on the calender that would usually involve: time off for work, restaurant closures, bank closures, ect. I would think most agree the new PC (political correct) Apple calender makes it inconvenient and clutters things up, esp. on the iPhone, trying to see what that dot means only to find it has no relevance to the days activities. Here’s a solution on how to fix for now if anybody is interested.
1) On the IOS device>select the Calender App>select Calenders at bottom>uncheck US Holidays-all US holidays will now be removed from showing on your Calender.
2)
Copy:
webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics
then Email the link (or another3rd party calender link of your choice) to the IOS device you want to add it to. Click the new US calender link from your email and IOS will give an option to add to calender. Add the calender. And that is it, new calender will show with the ‘standard USobserved holidays’ as in past generations of IOS Calenders.
Hope this helps others.
You don't download it. You subscribe to it.
The easiest solution seems to be include everything but let users edit out what they don’t celebrate or care to see on their individual device
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You're not missing anything worth reading, Gail. The hosts pruned a lot of dreck sometime today.
Agreed with what? That you're incapable of tapping one little switch to turn the default calendar off?
This thead would probably be about 20 pages if all the pruned posts were still in it.
all that fuss over something that can be turned off with a few finger taps.
stedman1 wrote:
Oh, I see now, you just want holidays that agree with YOUR flavour of religion?
stedman, I think they're agreeing Easter doesn't have a place on the U.S. Holidays calendar. They are in favor of the federal holidays only version.
Yes I’m well aware. I’m not suggesting anyone remove a “specific” holiday. I’m suggesting they remove holidays period. Apparently they are so bothersome 🙄 yet the US leads developed countries in the highest child poverty rate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/12/21/extreme-povert y-returns-to-america/ On that note signing off this thread
Skydiver119 wrote:
For many people in this country, they only get the ’big 7’ which I think is new years, memorial, independence, labor, thanksgiving, thanksgiving friday and christmas. (and I’ve only had one job that recognizes black friday as a holiday, if someone works in the service industry or retail they certainly do not get the day off)
Twenty years in retail. We got Christmas and New Years off. And only much later in my tenure did they add Easter to the list.
After Jesus is supposed to have died and come back I assumed that he must have been a zombie, but as neither exist I realized it must have been my imagination at work. Otherwise easter would be totally weird.
Csound1 wrote:
After Jesus is supposed to have died and come back I assumed that he must have been a zombie, but as neither exist I realized it must have been my imagination at work. Otherwise easter would be totally weird.
Christianity's mythos is certainly no weirder than many.
That's why I put "weird" in quotes. Those of us who grew up in America are used to a few Christian holidays, even if some are not Christians themselves. The concept of Easter might be strange to a lot of people, but that doesn't stop them from having Easter egg hunts with their kids. Are you just being deliberately obtuse?
afroware wrote:
That's why I put "weird" in quotes. Those of us who grew up in America are used to a few Christian holidays, even if some are not Christians themselves. The concept of Easter might be strange to a lot of people, but that doesn't stop them from having Easter egg hunts with their kids. Are you just being deliberately obtuse?
No, I'm trying to make a point that, even if you put it in quotes, it can be viewed as a derogatory term, especially when comparing the holiday to one celebrated by a larger percent of the population.
The personal insult was unnecessary.
Csound1 wrote:
The personal insult was unnecessary.
But fairly common when speaking to people who identify themselves as Christian.
I'm going to say it's an internet thing. People do seem to think that it's acceptable to be that rude on line.
I apologize for the insult, but again, that was the reason for the quotes. I personally don't care which religious holidays people choose to celebrate. My point was that, growing up, most Americans have become used to a certain subset of holidays, and for the "US Holidays" calendar to suddenly begin including a spate of holidays that most Americans have never even heard of, let alone care to celebrate, seems, well, "weird" to me. No offense meant by the term, and it's quite normal for things outside of ones purview to seem unfamiliar, and "weird" is a perfectly reasonable adjective that doesn't need to be demonized.
Sure, why not? Seems to me that people have been celebrating it for years without the Christian context. Isn't that why we have the Easter bunny and look for eggs? None of that seems to have anything to do with the Christian origins of the holiday, although perhaps I'm not up on my Christianity these days.
What’s up with the US holidays calendar
