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.
Ugh!! The calendar I would like to subscribe to is US Holidays. They should create an alternate calendar for these NON US Holidays. Completely ridiculous to make millions of Americans delete the US holidays calendar to then turn around and recreate it without the NON US Holidays.
I honestly don't care where it came from, but every year around this time the stores in America are filled with bunny and egg-shaped candy and other junk, so it would be safe to assume that the holiday is celebrated here in America by a significant portion of the population.
My question just was deleted when I posted all of the holidays such as on 6/15th or 8/20th and there are more. I thought an employee was playing a joke having no clue that this was serious. So now I am just not using my calendar as this is a waste of space that clogs up my calendar and with those useless holidays.
It's not? Are you the official arbiter of this forum?
From my limited experience on here, I've noticed that most of your posts seem pointless and argumentative. The OP asked for a solution to the calendar and I provided one. Your response did nothing to help the OP's problem, and I was just dumb enough to take your bait into this useless conversation.
Again, I apologize for calling you obtuse, and I hope my suggestion helps someone out there.
And the date of Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon occuring on or after the March equinox.
But that depends on which calendar you use.
Gregorian and Julian calendars can have different dates so Easter Sunday can be different for different Christian religions. It’s also worth noting that the first easter was around Passover, but in the subsequent millennia there were deliberate changes to how the date was determined to keep it apart from Passover.
Tying it into the equinox, as Csound1 said, had a lot to do with absorbing Pagan spring fertility rites and trying to tie Christian holidays to them to promote one over the other. The only thing now a days that’s ‘biblical’ about Easter is that it’s on a Sunday.
How did you unsubscribe from this calendar? I can't find the option. Mine is now in a section called "other" but still says subscribed. Even the Apple store couldn't help me (other than have me wait 4 hours for a specialist).
That is an unacceptable solution. Time consuming and unwield. And should not be necessary. Holidays that are common to US tradition should be the only ones show. If some people want world holidays then create a world holiday calendar. This is getting out of control with the PC culture.
NO IT’S NOT EASY!!!! Some holidays float. You have to go and research each one and add it every single year. Even holidays that fall on a particular day, such as the first Tuesday of the month, Apple doesn’t allow that kind of flexibility when setting up a recurrence.
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.
I agree a lot of this holidays aren’t even traditional, how could they be U.S. holidays with no U.S. origin. I want to know why Apple forces such a thing to their customers with no warning, or any way to change it.
Skydiver119 wrote:
Veteran’s Day (as Kurt stated, a rebranding of a holiday from another country)
Actually, I'm the one who said that. More evidence that Kurt and I may possibly be the same person?
I am one of those odd U.S. citizens who celebrates Remembrance Day on November 11. Therefore, I'm now declaring "Remembrance Day" as an additional U.S. holiday. Sadly, I seem to have lost my poppy.
Obviously those of us that don’t like the new calendar can choose not to use it. However since it’s not a calendar I can remove, I have to change the way I’ve been using the calendar for years. I have multiple calendars and sort by calendar throughout the day using hide all and show all. Now I have to remember to uncheck that calendar every time I go into the calendar and sort my appts. I realize it’s not a huge deal, first world problems. However, I shouldn’t have to have a calendar on here that I don’t want. I don’t care what the holidays are that are on the calendar. We are all forced to have that particular calendar on our phones whether we want it or not. That’s the whole point. There’s no reason for it.
such as the Easters which are based on the full moon.
The most bizarre placement ever devised.
"Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon that occurs after Spring Equinox (May 21)."
And there are rarely occurring sub-rules to make it even more convoluted than that.
IdrisSeabright wrote:
Skydiver119 wrote:
Veteran’s Day (as Kurt stated, a rebranding of a holiday from another country)
Actually, I'm the one who said that. More evidence that Kurt and I may possibly be the same person?
I am one of those odd U.S. citizens who celebrates Remembrance Day on November 11. Therefore, I'm now declaring "Remembrance Day" as an additional U.S. holiday. Sadly, I seem to have lost my poppy.
Based on the armistice terms of WWI where hostilities ceased on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918. In many parts of the world it is still known as Armistice Day. I knew it by that as a kid since both my grandfathers had fought in WWI. This year throughout Europe at least there are many planned special remembrances.
Coumie wrote:
Based on the title (US Holidays) most people are assuming the content of the calendar are holidays that most citizens of the US consider meaningful to them in ways they want to, at the very least, have a reminder on their calendar. “Holi,” for example, does not fall into that category. Someday it may, but not this year.
So the three million Hindu citizens of the U.S. don't count? How many do there need to be before there are enough of them for it to be okay with your presumed "most people" for Apple to put the holiday on their (Apple's) calendar?
A little light reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
I'd guess most people haven't even noticed the issue.
What’s up with the US holidays calendar
