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.
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
Tell Apple what you think about the label of the subscription calendar: Apple - Feedback.
However, why would you think Eid al-Fitr is more important overseas (unless you mean the Middle East), when there are over 3 million Muslims in this country. Some of us actually like knowing when people we work with or know in our town are celebrating their important holidays.
And US Holidays is not specific to any religion, whereas Islam Holidays is. So, the easiest solution is to simply choose a different calendar.
GB
Answered at least a dozen times in this topic alone - had you bothered to READ through it.
Turn the default calendar off. Subscribe to any of thousands of other calendars that suit your needs. No, I'm not going supply a link that is already in this topic many times. Find it yourself.
No, you don't need to do it each year. Once you create your own calendar, it will adjust where the events fall for you in all succeeding years.
Apple is failing to do, and ironically Microsoft gets it totally right, is create a US holidays calendar that reflects federal and non-federal days that people have off. Days like Labor Day etc. What Microsoft and others offer is to add religious or ethnic holidays by religion and they organize it by religions and ethnic. So you can add or remove. Why Apple can’t do this is beyond me? Second what
Microsoft and sometimes others pick really big religious holidays across the religions but its a slippery slope.
Instructions have been given at least 30 times in this thread as to how to unsubscribe. It is also listed in the manual to your phone which is available online. Go into the calendar and calendars then tap on the one, I believe it’s unnamed now, to unsubscribe to it.
You can also delete the calendar app then go out to the app store and findone that meets your specific purposes.
Couldn’t agree more. This is something that I think may have been done on Apple’s end.
I downloaded the Google calendar & followed the instructions & it took pertinent info from the Apple calendar & synced it. I just deleted the Apple calendar & am now using the Google calendar as my primary scheduling tool.
Of course it was done by Apple. It’s their subscription calendar! Anyone who wishes to distribute a subscription calendar has the right to put whatever they choose into it since it is their copy-write subscription content.
You could create your own subscription calendar with just what you want in it and distribute it - anybody can. But subscribers have one of two choices - subscribe, or don’t subscribe. Subscribers can not alter someone else‘s copy write material.
Well done! I too wanted my old uncluttered calendar back, and your excellent link gave me exactly that! Thank you!
webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics
You have two choices
stop looking at your phone
unsubscribe from the calendar
jrdaskibumm wrote:
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?
All of those are holidays celebrated by people who are citizens of the U.S. Why are they "non-US"?
jrdaskibumm wrote:
Because the US government only has 11 federal holidays. The rest are holidays person may celebrate but are not the 11 officially recognized federal holidays
So, you'd agree that Easter isn't a U.S. holiday. Fair enough.
For info
Postal Service holidays are
New Year‘s day
MLK day
President’s Day
Memorial Day
Independence day
Labor day
COlumbus day
Veteran’s Day (observed since it‘s on a sunday this year)
THanksgiving Day
christmas Day
Days Federal Offices are closed
New year’s day
MLK Day
President’s Day
emancipation Day (This is why sometimes taxes are due on the april 16th)
Independence day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Veteran’s Day
Thanksgiving Day
Day after thanksgiving
Christmas Day
Days Banks are closed
New Year’s day
MLK Day
Inauguration Day (only in and around washington DC every 4 years)
President’s day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Veteran’s Day
THanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
For many people in this country, they only get the ’big 7’ which I think is new years, memorial, independence, labor, thanksgiving, thanksgiving friday and christmas. (and I’ve only had one job that recognizes black friday as a holiday, if someone works in the service industry or retail they certainly do not get the day off)
I, too, was annoyed by all of the "weird" holidays popping up in my calendar, so I unsubscribed from Apple's "US Holidays" calendar. I found one that hits all of the "big" holidays, including Easter and other Christian holidays that people who aren't necessarily Christian or Catholic still like to see on their calendars.
webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics
Hope this helps some people!
how could they be U.S. holidays with no U.S. origin.
Let's see. Which ones are U.S. only, originated here celebrations? And yes, I'm going to skip a lot of really minor ones like Mother's and Father's Day.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
President's Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day (4th of July)
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Yeah, that's pretty much it. Everything else is much, much older and was brought over in some form with immigrants. Other than, you could maybe add Kwanzaa. A made up celebration invented about 1966. Lots of good ideas behind it, though. Lots of borrowing, too. The most obvious being the wooden menorah.
And I think you all have found the true issue here. Based on the title (US Holidays) most people are assuming the content of the calendar are holidays that most citizens of the US consider meaningful to them in ways they want to, at the very least, have a reminder on their calendar. “Holi,” for example, does not fall into that category. Someday it may, but not this year.
Coumie wrote:
And I think you all have found the true issue here. Based on the title (US Holidays) most people are assuming the content of the calendar are holidays that most citizens of the US consider meaningful to them in ways they want to, at the very least, have a reminder on their calendar. “Holi,” for example, does not fall into that category. Someday it may, but not this year.
Is there anything stopping you or anyone from simply ignoring the ones you don’t personally observe? The State of North Carolina (as well as several other states) does not observe Presidents Day so why is that not also considered a non-US Holiday?
Is what’s typed in a calendar that compelling to you that you cannot just ignore the days that don’t matter to you personally? Some posters here must have been apoplectic in the days of printed calendars landing unasked in your mailbox every December.
If this entire thread and others proves anything, it is that there IS no clear consensus nor universality to what anyone calls a “US Holiday”. So why should any one person‘s opinion dictate to anyone else what they choose to put in their optional subscription content?
What’s up with the US holidays calendar
