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
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/
"It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Apparently, it goes back quite a ways. There's a very similar phrase in the Bible. Which means it's likely even older than that.
Twenty years in retail that was pretty much how it worked. We got the holidays as paid time off but, we still had to request the day off and not everyone got it. The plus side was, if you did have to work, you made double time and a half so, there were always people who preferred to work holidays.
I don't remember getting Washington and Lincoln's Birthday's off as a kid. It was back in the days before all holidays fell on a Monday and before President's Day. Does anyone else remember?
My mom worked in a facility where you two week’s vacation was your holiday pay.....so if you wanted the 4th of july off with pay, you surrendered a paid day off to get it....so really there was no holidays, just days where you may have been paid more, unless you were salaried, then you didn’t get paid more but were still expected to work.
They also had very limited sick leave so of course, people came to work sick because they couldn’t afford to stay home, and could never really go on vacation unless they worked every holiday to get it. This place was also known to penalize those that ’took too much time off’ by reducing their schedule and hours or expecting the to work double shifts to make up for it.
The Description for what was US Holidays is now blank! There is no way to edit or delete this calendar. Our apps use the events and calendars and the blank name causes problems!
Does anyone know what's going on?
All calendars are subscription. Meaning, an existing calendar can only be edited by the person who created it. The default calendar belongs to Apple. You can use it as is, or turn it off.
The thousands of calendars you can subscribe to online are the same. You can use them, but not edit. If among all of those you still can't find one that exactly suits your needs, you'll need to create your own. You can then share that calendar with others. As with all other such calendars, only you will be able to edit it.
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.
Yes - all 20 pages of this thread have that recommendation. Freedom of choice is a beautiful thing that should be exercised regularly.
GB
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
It is a US Holiday because it is celebrated by US Citizens. It is also celebrated in other countries. Easter is celebrated in other countries. Does that mean it is NOT a US Holiday?
FOr the benefit of the new users, or people with new IDs participating in this thread I’ll mention the the reason this whole mess started....a few folks realized that their religious holiday - easter - was not on the calendar, so kicked up a fuss.
Apple, being the international company with MILLIONS of users of all faiths, responded by adding easter (or both easter’s really because there are two christian easters) but also added the major holidays of other major religions.
So if those original folks had just simply gone out and subscribed to a religious holiday calendar or simply made their own easter none of this would have happened. This is a case of be careful what you wish for.
The US is not a country of a single religion, no matter how some may wish to think it is. There are millions of people in this country, practicing every faith under the sun, including those that practice no faith at all.
Oddly enough out of all those faiths, there is only one that seems to get so bent out of shape when the rest of the world does not cater to their own singular world view.
Skydiver119 wrote:
Oddly enough out of all those faiths, there is only one that seems to get so bent out of shape when the rest of the world does not cater to their own singular world view.
I'm occasionally tempted to go off on a rant about how as an atheist, I don't need no stinkin' religious holidays contaminating my completely secular iPhone. But then I remember I hate making myself look like an idiot in public.
Skydiver119 wrote:
Oddly enough out of all those faiths, there is only one that seems to get so bent out of shape when the rest of the world does not cater to their own singular world view.
I don’t know that I’d go that far. It’s my experience that organized religion, any and every organized religion or at least some branch of them all, is by its very nature, exclusionary and intolerant of others (since every one believes it, and only it, is the one, true religion). History is littered with wars started by, endorsed by and conducted by every religion, with every side claiming their religion is in the right. So nobody’s religion is wholly exempt from this sort of thing.
There are certainly elements in all religions that try to learn from that history and change things to embrace tolerance of others, but they are always at odds with other factions in their very own faith.
i work for a state. we do not get president’s day or columbus day as a paid holiday. (In truth I’d rather get president’s day rather than MLK day because that january holiday is on the heels of the november, december and new year’s day......then its a long 4 months til the next day off. I’d give up MLK to get one in february.
Years ago they discussed giving us president’s and columbus day but decided not to because it’d ‘cost too much’ to have employees getting another paid day off.
jjjfrommd wrote:
I agree. This is PC garbage. I just want US Federal holidays not International holidays clouding my calendar.
Then feel free to subscribe to one that meets your limited needs. The instructs have been provided.
As Christmas, New Year's and Easter are international holidays, I'm sure you'll want to find a calendar that doesn't include them.
Of course I can do it myself each year, but that negates the convenience and simplicity normally associated with using an apple product. In my view there should be a choice in the calendar app listing just the Traditional US holidays. What's so difficult about that? I too am continually annoyed with having my calendar littered with this obscure calendar graffiti!
Answered at least a dozen times in this topic alone - had you bothered to READ through it.
Turn the default calendar off. Subscribe to any of thousands of other calendars that suit your needs. No, I'm not going supply a link that is already in this topic many times. Find it yourself.
No, you don't need to do it each year. Once you create your own calendar, it will adjust where the events fall for you in all succeeding years.
cognac2 wrote:
In my view there should be a choice in the calendar app listing just the Traditional US holidays. What's so difficult about that?
Twenty percent of the holidays on the Federal Employee holiday list didn't exist when I was a child (and I'm not ancient), so, I'm not sure how "traditional" they really are.
What’s up with the US holidays calendar
