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.
I’ve been using subscription calendars for a heck of a lot longer than 7 years and the last Mac Tips mention of them. ICS format calendaras date back to the late 1990’s.
What I truly do not understand is the extreme melodrama and hyperbole that posters, many of them first time posters, have brought to this and other Apple subscription calendar threads.
It‘s a calendar. Use it, don’t use it, use another, create your own - whatever. But it is still just a freak’in calendar. At the end of the day, it is nothing! Nothing at all to get bothered about, worked up over, or even mildly irrated by.
It’s idoitic to me that these very threads about an optional electronic subscription calendar even exist at all.
I’ve also heard of some companies that no longer observe any company holidays at all. They have adopted a pure discretionary time off policy. The company I work for still observes several holidays, but has dropped paid time off and and sick leave for a discretionary time off policy instead.
Yet another poster who didn't bother to read the thread they posted to before making a nonsense post.
I don't know who said it, but "It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
My younger son just got past the 6 month trial period and was permanently hired full-time at a Target distribution center (yay!). Because product has to continually move from manufacturers trucks coming in, and Target trucks going out to distribute the product to stores, it operates 24/7.
The only day employees get off as a paid holiday is Christmas day - if your shift happens to fall on that day. Any other "holidays" you want off have to be requested ahead of time. If granted (the work still has to get done, so not everyone gets approved), you use your vacation time if you want to be paid for that day.
"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?
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
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
I find it astonishing that any U.S. citizen of average intelligence would say something like this. Unless of course, you were brought up in a compound in Idaho with no access to the internet, books, newspapers or magazines and were home-schooled by someone using textbooks published in the 1860s.
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!
What’s up with the US holidays calendar
