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.
Coumie wrote:
As incongruent to my previous reply it may seem, I agree with what you say with this one exception.....”any one person” - what *I* said was “most people” and if that includes Holi, then so be it. I am not offended.
But again, who are you, or anyone else, to decide what “most people“ observe? There are over 320 million people in the USA and they cover hundreds of ethnic groups. What and who defines what “most people” think or do?
So many subscription calendars just use all or many of the holidays celebrated by one or more groups in the USA, drawing from publicly compiled lists like https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/. People can then, should they even choose to use any particular subscription calendar, pay attention to the ones they care about, and ignore the rest.
BUt the US govt officially recognizes no holidays. Federal offices recognize some and shut down, but there are no official government holidays.
Just because banks close or the post office does not deliver does not make a holiday an official US holiday, it just makes it one the federal govt chooses to acknowledge...and even that varies from state to state, Emancipation day and Inauguration day being two examples of federal holidays that are only celebrated in a limited area, in this case Washington DC.
doefromnewark wrote:
. Apple should accommodate both types of customer.
And so they do. If you don't like Apple's holiday calendar, don't use it. It's just one possible option. There are tons of others out there, or you could just add your own preferred holidays to the calendar.
Well, actually, Hindu holidays are included. As you would know if you bothered to read the thread you posted to before posting. And you would also know the religions whose holidays ARE included (the 5 most widely practiced religions in the US, BTW):
Could there be more? Of course. But all of the other dozens of religions practiced in the US have fewer followers than these 5. And Buddhism is an offshoot of Hinduism, and celebrates most of the same holidays.
By definition and an international standard, subscription calendars can only be edited by the calendar provider. You can choose to use the calendar or to unselect it and not use it, but as you only a viewer and not the owner you can’t edit it. It’s the same idea as a printed calendar. You use it as it comes. You can choose a different print calendar, of course.
judisstang wrote:
Thank you for your never ending supply of enlightenment... your (and your cronies) posts are exactly why I couldn't stomach this entire thread, many of them just spewing opinions - anything anyone posted that seemed to clash with yours, you had to snap back at them with your heavenly (oops - probably not PC) enlightenment.
I did find a calendar that meets my needs (GOOGLE) and I no longer have to have holidays forced on me that I don't care about.
Thanks for the help 🙂
I'm glad you found a solution that has been posted many times over in this thread.
But you will notice that you can't delete anything from the Google calendar, either.
Holger.Danske wrote:
Until I find an app that shows US holidays as I think they should be, I will have to manually code them in.
I fixed that for you.
If you read the thread, you'll find plenty of links to sites that offer other holiday calendars you can subscribe to. In fact, all you have to do is look two posts above yours for suggestions.
Best of luck.
jacklyndf wrote:
Apple likes to make things more difficult then need be. Simple solution for this problem of holidays is to have their calendar free from holidays all together. Have a single tab with a list of all Apples so called holidays ad let the user choose which to display. Not that hard Apple!
The simple solution is to uncheck that calendar. One tiny step. Do you really think that people will be happier if they are forced to manually "build" a calendar with holidays on it? Especially when there are, literally, hundreds to choose from that then just takes another couple of steps to find and download. There's an old saying at Apple that applies here - "there's an app for that". Use that one.
GB
As has been noted DOZENS of times up thread, unsubscribe and do not use the apple calendars.
simple as that.
If you don’t like the Big Mac sandwich, do you endlessly pedition the restaurant to stop serving the sandwich....or do you just order something else or go to another restaurant?
A wise person does not expect the world to personally cater to them, they find a way to co-exist with the other people also in the world.
There are also other links that have been provided more than a few times in this topic. There are thousands of subscription calendars to choose from.
Do note that all calendars created by other folks are subscription. Meaning, you can't change what you may not like about those, either. But with so many to choose from, I'm sure there'd be at least a hundred or so identical ones that suit your flavor.
Michael...in the USA...
The following Federal holidays are established by law (5 U.S.C. 6103):
Why don't you tell Apple, instead of the other users in this user-to-user forum who are sick of people posting totally useless comments that have already been posted over and over and over and over...usually be people who didn't bother to read any of the thread they posted to?
Heres the spot: https://apple.com/feedback
It seems that with every iOS update, there are more holidays added to the U.S. Holidays calendar. Funny, but I don’t know what most of them are because they aren’t Federally recognized holidays. For now, I have unsubscribed from the U.S. Holidays calendar.
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).
Read, and learn, as far as US federal holidays:
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-82/pdf/STATUTE-82-Pg250-3.pdf
https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/Federal_Holidays.pdf
Perhaps there should be a calendar named “Observed US Holidays” which is what I believe the OP and many others are looking for.
Then create one and invite others to subscribe to it.
Or visit >>> http://icalshare.com/
What’s up with the US holidays calendar
