What’s up with the US holidays calendar

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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

It is a US Holiday because it is celebrated by US Citizens. It is also celebrated in other countries. Easter is celebrated in other countries. Does that mean it is NOT a US Holiday?

my mom used to say ‘if you’re not going to fix it, stop complianing about it’.

Expecting a multi billion dollar multi national company to cater to a single person’s desires is a bit, well, self absorbed. A person could spend years demanding that some company or service cater to them personally.....or the simpler and easier solution is usually to find a fix that works for you and move on.

I could perhaps understand the gnashing of teeth and rending of shirts were the default calendar something that a person could not opt out of. Then it could be truly said that it is forced upon a person. However it is not like that. The default calendar is disabled in a couple of taps - in fact disabled in a few seconds vs the minutes it takes a personto make an account here to express their dislike.

Don't use the calendar then. Go find a new one or a new app. 😉

Exactly. As all the people whose only skill is to gripe rather than read, the very SIMPLE solution is mentioned in this topic at least a dozen times. Some with links to sites where you can pick from among thousands of other calendars.

Sounds incredibly flexible to me.

k0 wrote:

Because the US was not established as a Muslim or Buddhist country (and has not yet become one), holidays for those religions are not included on such calendars.

The U.S. was explicitly not established as a Christian country, either. So, perhaps we should remove those to. Oh, wait, Apple did and there was an uproar.

The Federal Holidays for 2018 include precisely one traditionally Christian holiday.

Times change, and "everyone" has not known or even agree what are US holidays. And I have a couple of wall calendars that have Christian, Jewish and Muslim holidays on them. Just run-of-the-mill card store wall calendars. No Hindu, however; too bad; most Hindu holidays are a lot of fun.

FrankRizzo0 wrote:

All the holidays that everyone has known as US Holidays for decades, are the US Holidays. Easy.

Define “everyone”? There are over 325 million citizens in the USA. Do you really expect anyone to believe you know what all of them have “known” their whole lives? There are citizens here from every culture on the planet. That’s the point.

And the current US Federal Holidays only date from 1968, when congress shifted dates and set up the current schedule of holidays for US federal employees. So every citizen older than 50 has “known” a different US Federal Employee Holiday Schedule than the current one.

Well, it depends where you live. In NYC, for example, schools are closed on major Christian, Muslim and Jewish holidays, and parking regulations are relaxed on both major and minor Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim and Chinese holidays.

FingerCuffs wrote:

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.

Not every American observes those, nor do they get them off work. They have never been universally observed holidays for anyone outside of the US Federal Government. Again, I’ll point out that with over 326 million Americans from hundreds of ethnic origins, there is no such thing as any universally observed holiday schedule. And there never has been.

martiniapple wrote:

Agreed. Stupid political correctness.

The US Holidays calendar is useless because it is cluttered up with holidays that 99% of us citizens know nothing about and care less

Speak for yourself. You are certainly not in the position to tell us what 99% of the US citizens know or care about. And if you don't like it, turn it off. What's the problem? If you are so offended by it being called US Holidays, why don't you send feedback to Apple asking them to change it to simply "Holidays": Apple - Feedback

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Not offended, just irrelevant to me and the majority of people in this country. The calendar is overly cluttered, and so I've deleted it and enabled a calendar that's more relevant to me. And the majority of people in this country.

Despite your desire to go over the same tired argument over, and over again, subscribed calendars (none of them) can be altered. If the one you are seeing doesn’t meet your needs, feel free to download one that matches your views and beliefs.

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.