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.
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You'd think, wouldn't you?
Where is Washington's Birthday? Apple also missed Chuseok.
Interesting, Groundhog's Day and Eid al-Adha are both equal US Holidays (Holy Days).
I completely agree. Muslim holidays should not be showing up on my iPhone.
And yet another person who didn’t read anything in this topic past the first post.
The solution is in this topic at least 20 times. READ.
I believe those are all national US holidays...
A very sensible solution.
All the holidays that everyone has known as US Holidays for decades, are the US Holidays. Easy.
Yet if you’d read anything in this thread you’d know that it is not possible for a subscriber to edit a subscription calendar. Apple did not invent the subscription calendar format.
The same reason you can’t subscribe to a magazine or newspaper and have them only write stories you like and agree with.
Brilliant. A simple answer. Thanks!
As explained earlier
The calendar mechanics, as in how it works, is international. Subscribed calendars are “as is”.
Use ‘em or don’t use ‘em. Your choice.
The intolerance seems to be geographic.
True, for Homo sapiens, the out of Africa hypothesis has a large weight of evidence.
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Veteran’s Day (as Kurt stated, a rebranding of a holiday from another country)
Actually, I'm the one who said that. More evidence that Kurt and I may possibly be the same person?
I am one of those odd U.S. citizens who celebrates Remembrance Day on November 11. Therefore, I'm now declaring "Remembrance Day" as an additional U.S. holiday. Sadly, I seem to have lost my poppy.
Based on the armistice terms of WWI where hostilities ceased on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918. In many parts of the world it is still known as Armistice Day. I knew it by that as a kid since both my grandfathers had fought in WWI. This year throughout Europe at least there are many planned special remembrances.
I remember my Grandmother telling me about Armistice Day (the actual day, not the subsequent holiday) and hearing church bells ringing.
Hmm - I was searching on iCalShare.com - and although it seemed like an outdated site, it offered me another Subscription for US Holidays than the one I had before: webcal://ical.mac.com/ical/US32Holidays.ics.
I still do not know what "EarthDay" is - but it might be closer to what you wanted.
Actually I wouldn't even mind, and actually love to use, a separate Calendar with Holidays around the world, as long as it comes with some context ...
What’s up with the US holidays calendar
