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.
Buddylou wrote:
Where is Washington's Birthday?
Right where the US Congress put it, on February 19 this year.
Interesting, Groundhog's Day and Eid al-Adha are both equal US Holidays (Holy Days).
And Groundhog Day and Easter are also equal US Holidays by your analogy. Both celebrate myths. Sounds about right.
Eid al-Adha celebrates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son. Something that all Judeo-Christian religions should celebrate. Sadly, only Muslims now recognize it, and it is the holiest day in the Muslim calendar. Yet it is fundamental to most monotheistic faiths.
This is a pretty odd post. You praise the easy ability to use a different calendar on one hand, and insult Apple with the other.
As in, what insult (Apple policy that tries to insult its customers)? How is a default calendar, which is really just an example item - an insult? To whom? Bigots and racists?
What spam? Do you mean this topic? This entire forum is user-to-user. A user started the topic with the ridiculous notion that holidays celebrated in this country who are not Christian is somehow wrong. All responses are from other users. Apple themselves haven't said one peep in this topic. Though the hosts have removed a fair number of vile posts from people who, for whatever reason, can't even tolerate seeing a holiday in the calendar they don't celebrate.
Is it really that hard to simply ignore noted dates that don't apply to you?
Thanks for the suggestion, but maybe apple could just do that one simple thing which doesn’t seem like an outlandish request that would instantly benefit many minimalist calendar users who don’t want to take the time to build and/or share a calendar from a third party?
I’ve requested the feature for both MacOS and iOS, as I’m sure many others have already done. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ we’ll see how it goes.
Again...there are 31 pages to this thread so no, I did NOT read all 31 pages and the ones I did read had the same message as mine. These extra holidays were not on our calendar in the past so it would be nice if we had the ability to delete the entries we don't want to see.
IdrisSeabright wrote:
MissyN wrote:
Why can't I subscribe to the calendar but then have the ability to delete?
Because that's not the way the international standard works.
The calendar is named US Holidays, not International Holidays, did you report the bug to Apple yet?
IdrisSeabright wrote:
btnheazy03 wrote:
The calendar is named US Holidays, not International Holidays, did you report the bug to Apple yet?
Why should I? All of the holidays on the calendar are celebrated by actual U.S. citizens. You are free to do as you think best.
Best of luck.
It's just odd that you would look to apply 'international standards' to a calendar named US Holidays.
God bless.
btnheazy03 wrote:
It's just odd that you would look to apply 'international standards' to a calendar named US Holidays.
There are international standards for many things we use here in the U.S., for example HTML, email, SMS.
You could name a Word document "Pages" but that wouldn't change the file format.
As you are now simply trolling, I will be ignoring you.
Best of luck.
Skydiver119 wrote:
Yes, why would the country founded by refugees and immigrants from all over the world DARE to have a calendar that acknowledges the holidays of those millions and millions descendants of those immigrants.
If you want the US calendar to only feature holidays of the original inhabitants of this land then someone needs to research the traditional feast days of the dozens of native tribes that were here first.
Eloquent.
And if the current scientific view is correct, there was no one here initially. All of the human race supposedly originated in what we now refer to southern Africa and spread from there. So the distant descendants of Native Americans didn’t originate here, either. They were simply the first ones here.
I was glad to see that with my newest update 11.2.6 Easter was returned to the Holiday calendar but for March Holi is still there, never heard of it before. I can’t figure out how to delete it.
Yes it’s a Christian holiday
Oh, I see now, you just want holidays that agree with YOUR flavour of religion?
afroware wrote:
I, too, was annoyed by all of the "weird" holidays popping up in my calendar,
Lots of people think Christian holidays are "weird".
You seem to be saying that Easter is now a secular celebration and as such should be added to the US Holiday calendar, have I got that right?
What’s up with the US holidays calendar
