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.
Gosh! When they look in the App Store, I sure it doesn't offend them that there's religious centric calendars there, too!
Let's see, there's Persian, Original Jewish, Islamic, Elyoum (Islamic), lots of Lunar options (could be taken as Wicken), Hindu, a couple that are sure to offend the Decency League - Ovulation and Menstrual, Ji (Jewish), Rouzshomar (Persian), Bible Calendar, Moadim (Jewish), and more.
Gosh darn them thar' un-American calendars!
Apple needs to be a little more sensitive about my religious holidays over whatever junk YOU think is important:
June 4:
Hug your cat day.
...as if we need a special day 🙂
July 22:
Rat Catchers Day
August 16:
National Bratwurst Day (Bratsgiving)
August 20:
World Mosquito Day
There is no excuse for these omissions.
judisstang wrote:
Your sarcasm is best thrown in the trash. Not becoming of you.
I don't think he was being sarcastic. If you'd actually wanted help, you could have gotten it by reading the thread. You seemed more interested in espousing the notion that your idea of what constitutes a U.S. holiday is somehow more correct than Apple's (or of the millions of Muslim, Jewish and Hindu citizens of the U.S.).
You are entitled to your opinion. So is Apple. Find a calendar that meets your needs.
JimmyCMPIT wrote:
Apple needs to be a little more sensitive about my religious holidays over whatever junk YOU think is important:
June 4:
Hug your cat day.
...as if we need a special day 🙂
As far as my cat is concerned, the only days that aren't "Hug your cat day" are the ones that are "Play with your cat day", "Buy your cat new fuzzy mouse toys day", "Feed your cat freeze dried liver treats day" and, of course, "Catnip Day".
What sarcasm? You couldn't have read anything in this topic before posting, or you wouldn't have needed to post anything at all. Other than a "thanks" to at least a few people who have posted a link, more than once, to a site where you can get all sorts of calendars.
Skydiver119 wrote:
I am actually very upset that May the Fourth and Talk like a pirate day were omitted
Not to mention the lack of Pi day.
totally uncalled for.
My boss had me add Pi Day and Scientist's Day to the office calendar so don't forget to celebrate them the next time around.
I would bet you already know this, but in reality, a calendar can be overflowing with "officially" designated observances. These are just the "fun" ones.
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/fun/
Were a person to take the time to find anything observed somewhere in the world, there would be at least three items for every day of the calendar.
I hate to think how much incessant whining that would cause, were they all on Apple's calendar.
my 7 mo. old tabby plays fetch with me. his sister (also a cat) drops any scrunchies she finds between the couch cushions and then waits for you to reach in and throw it across the room. First cats I've ever had play fetch. It was usually "I killed a rabbit, here's you half."
May 15: Play fetch with a cat day.
JimmyCMPIT wrote:
his sister (also a cat) drops any scrunchies she finds between the couch cushions and then waits for you to reach in and throw it across the room.
They are weird little creatures. Tache drops her fuzzy mice in the bed for me to throw across the room but, regardless of which way I'm facing on the bed, she drops them behind my back. Mind you, this is usually at about 4am.
May 15: Play fetch with a cat day.
I love it! I will send feedback to Apple demanding that they add this to the U.S. Holdiay calendar Or else!
I find the term "political correctness" extremely offensive. To me it means that anyone who says it is admitting to bigotry.
This is and always has been a multicultural country. It is definitely not nonsense; it is who we are as a country. Unless your ancestors are Native Americans, YOU are descended from immigrants. And probably from immigrants who were shunned by the immigrants who arrived before your ancestors, who considered giving them rights or acknowledging their existance as "political correctness."
You are perfectly free to code in the holidays that are important to you. No one cares that you do.
Skydiver119 wrote:
I’ve certainly worked places where you don’t get holidays off, or do not even get holiday pay for working the holiday, and even know of some that considered the major holidays as part of your 2 weeks of vacation....meaning if you wanted Christmas off with pay you needed to sacrifice a vacation day to get it.
For twenty years, the only holidays I got off on the actual holiday were Thanksgiving and Christmas, of which I only celebrate one. The other holidays were included in our time off benefits but, you had to request the day off and only a certain number of people could be off on any given day so, I usually just took them as part of my pay.
Now, in my new job, I get the week between Christmas and New Years off as a paid holiday. It's amazing!
Yom Kippur and Cesar Chavez Day are officially optional State holidays for Texas State Employees. Imagine, the Texas State Government is more open minded than many posters here appear to be 😮
Michael Black wrote:
Yom Kippur and Cesar Chavez Day are officially optional State holidays for Texas State Employees. Imagine, the Texas State Government is more open minded than many posters here appear to be 😮
Wow! I am surprised. Good for Texas.
I'm glad you figured out what has been posted in this thread at least a dozen times. Sometimes it pays to read through a series of posts.
There's an easier way to do it, BTW. Which has also been posted multiple times in this thread.
Apple likes to make things more difficult then need be. Simple solution for this problem of holidays is to have their calendar free from holidays all together. Have a single tab with a list of all Apples so called holidays ad let the user choose which to display. Not that hard Apple!
What’s up with the US holidays calendar
