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? Apple also missed Chuseok.
Interesting, Groundhog's Day and Eid al-Adha are both equal US Holidays (Holy Days).
Washington's Birthday is not on the list of Federal holidays anymore. Neither is Lincoln's Birthday. Both were on the Federal holidays list when I was a child and were celebrated on the actual birthdays. But, because most Americans, it seems, are more interested in a three day weekend than actually commemorating the birth of significant people in our history, the two holidays have been folded together into "Presidents' Day". It's a lot like Armistice Day getting converted to "Veterans' Day", which, if you think about it, is redundant. That's what Memorial Day is for.
FrankRizzo0 wrote:
All the holidays that everyone has known as US Holidays for decades, are the US Holidays. Easy.
Well, the holidays that I've known forever include Washington's Birthday, Lincoln's Birthday, Armistice Day, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah and Hanukkah. And, holidays, like Washington's and Lincoln's Birthdays and Columbus Day fell on the actual date of the holiday, none of this three day weekend nonsense. So, perhaps that's the holiday calendar we should have?
Martin Luther King Day as not a holiday in my childhood. Are you suggesting we not include that? The notoriously racist and ignorant former mayor of Philadelphia who shares your name probably would have been appalled by MLK day.
I understand this, but how many of these US Holidays added to the calendar give many workers time off of work, such as Thanksgiving Day, Columbus Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, etc? Perhaps there should be a calendar named “Observed US Holidays” which is what I believe the OP and many others are looking for.
Fmaybe 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?
Apple does not, or allow us, to debate policy here.
You've submitted feedback, which is all you can do.
Perhaps there should be a calendar named “Observed US Holidays” which is what I believe the OP and many others are looking for.
It isn't possible, since there are so many different ethnic and religious organizations in this country. Every holiday on the default calendar is celebrated by someone.
I get what you mean by days workers get time off for, but that isn't even close to universal, either. Where my younger son works, the one and only "normal" holiday the workers get as a paid holiday is Christmas day. Any other standard holiday you have to use vacation time for. And the whole warehouse can't get an okay on their request since product still has to be distributed to the stores 24/7.
Okay, what about the rest? Who gets President's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Columbus Day or Veteran's Day off? Pretty much only government employees. For virtually any other company, you work those days.
What about Ground Hog's day or Valentine's Day? They're official U.S. holidays, but I don't know of anyone who gets them as a paid, or even unpaid day off of work. Not even government employees.
There are no truly fixed holidays that everyone gets off of work. You can take any holiday of the year and note how many people do not get the day off paid. Such as hospitals, police and fire departments, gas stations, department stores (they love being open on holidays), and many others.
Long ago in a print shop I worked for, one of the office staff was Jewish. Christmas meant nothing to her, but one of the bigger ones in her faith, Rosh Hashanah, did. So they would give her that day off as a paid holiday and she'd come in to work on Christmas day. She said it felt odd to be the only person in the building, but it was also a day she could get a lot of CSR work done without being pulled into other projects.
FingerCuffs wrote:
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?
You’ve come late to the party. Apple did just that at the beginning of the year, a calendar with no religious holidays. But there were screams of protest when Easter wasn’t on that calendar. So Apple updated it on Feb 22 to include holidays for the 5 most practiced religions in the US.
I hide the Apple US calendar. I’ve added my gmail account, and use the Google United States holiday calendar instead. It has what I’m familiar with as US holidays, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Christmas, etc.. That lines up with my paid holidays mostly, so that works for me.
Totally agree with this! There are so many non-US holidays that are cluttering up my calendar. Come on Apple...you're a smart bunch...come up with a way for us to edit the holiday list so we can remove holidays that we don't want on our calendars!
MissyN wrote:
Totally agree with this! There are so many non-US holidays that are cluttering up my calendar. Come on Apple...you're a smart bunch...come up with a way for us to edit the holiday list so we can remove holidays that we don't want on our calendars!
A) They are holidays celebrated by millions of U.S. citizens and therefore ARE U.S. holidays and B) the subscription calendar standard is not Apple's to mess with and C) there are other calendars to which you can subscribe to that may better meet your limited view of what constitutes an acceptable U.S. holiday. Did you read this thread at all before posting?
hhhmmm...well seeing how there are 31 pages to this thread, I'll admit that I did NOT read all 31 pages. (insert eye roll) I did not say that Apple created it, I suggested Apple come up with a way for us to edit what actually shows on our calendars. Why can't I subscribe to the calendar but then have the ability to delete? Give me a break.
Skydiver119 wrote:
The same reason you can’t subscribe to a magazine or newspaper and have them only write stories you like and agree with.
Which, I suspect is part of the reason for the decline of the paper versions. I'm sure you've read some of the threads where people are demanding to remove Fox/NYTimes/ from their Apple News as if the mere presence of stories requires they read them.
The U.S. is, increasingly, a country of people who are afraid of having their beliefs contaminated by anything new or different.
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.
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.
That would actually be many hundreds of native tribes, dozens of nations actually. And that would not include the native Hawaiians nor native Alaskan people’s. The Sioux nation alone has seven primary councils or tribes. The Cree Indians were compromised of over 100 distinct tribes and the Algonquns were another 12 or 13 primary tribes. Along the west coast there are dozens more. I believe within the lower 48 states alone it’s estimated over 500 distinct tribal councils (i.e. “People’s“ in most native NA languages) historically existed.
My Dad worked for some time with Cree Indians in N. Ontario but in the USA most now are in Montana with the Ojibwe. They may have been the largest nation of tribes in NA.
As part of doing some research for work, I discovered "Mole Day". It takes place between 6:02am and 6:02pm on 10/23. I've added it to my calendar.
Thank you for being proactive.🙂
What’s up with the US holidays calendar
