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.
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.
Easter won’t. since it’s based on the date of the first full moon after the spring equinox it can fall from march - late april. (A religious holiday that is based on the pagan observation of the full moon and movements of the sun. I may have also read that it was based in and around Passover as well since Passover is the hoilday Jesus was celebrating when all those events went down.)
But, as you said and as has been repeated DOZENS of times in this thread, if a person doesn’t like the apple calendar, don’t use it. Plain and simple.
Easter won’t.
Yup, because if its bizarre placement method, as you mentioned. Though even that is known well ahead of time since the phases of the moon are constant. With that information, the day Easter will fall on is mostly predictable. But there is also at least one rarely occurring sub-rule I've read about that throws even that timing off.
Skydiver119 wrote:
Easter won’t. since it’s based on the date of the first full moon after the spring equinox it can fall from march - late april. (A religious holiday that is based on the pagan observation of the full moon and movements of the sun. I may have also read that it was based in and around Passover as well since Passover is the hoilday Jesus was celebrating when all those events went down.)
Passover and Easter are based on the same astronomical rules, but then Easter is moved so it always falls on a Sunday. Every few years they align, with Holy Thursday falling on the night of First Seder, or "the last supper."
The solutions to all this angst and upset by posters here is trivially simply and readily available at numerous web sites, all found quickly and easily in less time then it took most complainers to type their posts here.
Exactly. It's even more obnoxious that these users find this topic, but then can't be bothered to READ IT before adding yet another pointless complaint.
Kurt,
You are the one that needs to read the questions. My question involved the US Holidays name DISAPPEARING. It cannot be edited or deleted.
Any ideas? I thought not. More interesting to carry on the inane discussion about holidays.
What question of yours are you even talking about? According to your profile, this is your very first post to these forums.
If you actually have a question different from what the originator of this thread had, you should start your own thread, rather than bury obscure and off-topic posts in someone else's thread on a completely different topic. Especially if all you're doing is criticizing someone else's response in a thread that apparently has nothing at all to do with your own issue.
auralto wrote:
Kurt,
You are the one that needs to read the questions. My question involved the US Holidays name DISAPPEARING. It cannot be edited or deleted.
Any ideas? I thought not. More interesting to carry on the inane discussion about holidays.
The issue was that your question was buried in a thread that was about an entirely different topic. If you want a question to be carefully considered and responded to, it needs to be in a place that is obvious. Putting a post like yours in the middle of a contentious thread is almost guaranteed to get no notice.
What have you done to troubleshoot the issue? Have you reset your device? Have you tried turning off Calendars in iCloud on the device and then turning it back on?
Do you have a Mac? If so, go to the Calendar on the Mac, click on Calendars>Preferences, and uncheck the "Show Holidays Calendar".
GB
Where's Canada Day on here? I'm a US Citizen and I celebrate that day as my wife is Canadian.
Oh the other 299 million of you don't celebrate it? Well tough luck. Don't use the calendar then. Go find a new one or a new app. 😉
Precisely. What is more flexible than allowing a person to opt out of something they don’t want?
Don’t wanna use SIri...turn it off.
Don't’ want to use AIrDrop, turn it off.
Don‘t want to use auto correct turn it off.
Don’t want to use location services, turn it off.
Don’t like the default calendar....TURN IT OFF.
BobB613 wrote:
Joseph...finally someone put the correct point on this inane discussion. Having been an Apple user for many years they have become most inflexible.
What is the correct point? To make an inane post without bothering to read any of the 23 pages of posts that have said the same things over and over?
This is honestly so annoying. And just because people "celebrate these holidays in America" doesn't suddenly make it a US holiday. Most people don't need or want all these random BS non-US holidays in the US SPECIFIC calendar. That's why it's called the US calendar. That's the whole freaking point. It's cluttering up my calendar and making things very confusing and there's no way to change this. Apple needs to get on their **** already.
Kurt Lang wrote:
Did you just decide to totally ignore this entire thread just to complain?
Yup, gayegg did. Because, you know, reading is just soooooo exhausting!
And complaining is de rigueur....
Somehow, that good old American initiative has gone by the wayside, and just spewing out what you think has taken its place. No more creativity, pride in finding solutions, no more "we can do anything" attitude - just rip everyone to pieces as often as possible instead of figuring out a solution.
Oh, and civility? What's that????
GB
IdrisSeabright wrote:
The U.S. was explicitly not established as a Christian country, either.
Agree. I intentionally did not say otherwise. However, the heritage and traditions of the United States arguably have been heavily influenced by Christianity.
Correct. The US was established as ahome for those fleeing the religious persecution of their home lands, thus the reason to write into its founding laws the freedoms to practice any religion they want.
It was founded by people fleeing one religious group persecuting them for practicing the ‘wrong’ religion and even killing them over it.
sad how, hundreds of years later, we still have one sect of a belief persecuting and at times, killing those that they believe are worshipping ‘wrong’. It’d be nice if religious extremism - which plagues every single religion out there, including Christianity - was a thing of the past.
Ya would think, in respect to the history of every single person in the country save the Native Americans who were already here, the descendants of those first immigrants and the countless millions that followed, would have learned to embrace the diversity of all. Including to whom and how they pray.
What’s up with the US holidays calendar
