How do I remove "Holi" (March 2) from my iphone calendar?

Okay all you (think) brilliant people out there telling us what is a religious or US Holiday, the total point (that you are all missing, except a few) is that we ought to have the choice to delete any holiday if we want. Apple needs to make the calendar so we can delete what we don't want on it. Better yet, just put out a generic calendar and then we can add what we want (like a "New Event") and choose to repeat it every year. Every one is happy. Please do that Apple and lets stop all this ridiculous PC crap!

wendymoira wrote:

On my chosen US Holiday calendar I expect to see the following according to the Federal holidays established by law (5 U.S.C. 6103):

• New Year's Day (January 1).
• Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Third Monday in January).
• Washington's Birthday (Third Monday in February).
• Memorial Day (Last Monday in May).
• Independence Day (July 4).
• Labor Day (First Monday in September).
• Columbus Day (Second Monday in October).
• Veterans Day (November 11).
• Thanksgiving Day (Fourth Thursday in November).
• Christmas Day (December 25).

For information on the observation of these holidays within Federal employee work schedules, please see the Federal holidays fact sheet at http://www.opm.gov/oca/WORKSCH/HTML/HOLIDAY.asp.

I subscribe to my chosen religious (Christian) holidays and I appreciate that this is an option; it is here I expect to see holidays associated with my Christianity. "Holi" is not a part of my chosen religion and according to law (per above) it is not a US Holiday, it is a Hindu festival. It needs to be removed. Thanks Apple, we'd like this corrected.

And, sensibly, that's what Apple did. However. apparently a lot of Christians had hurt feelings because Easter was removed. So, Apple put major holidays from major relgions on the calendar.

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Disregard my reply above. As I have read thru this feed... I suggest remove ALL celebratory dates from our calendar! National. Religious. Even the "cats half birthday." Be responsible people and add to your own calendars your special dates. It is not that tough!!!! Then no complaints. You only have yourselves to blame if you miss that "cats half-birthday."

wendymoira wrote:

On my chosen US Holiday calendar I expect to see the following according to the Federal holidays established by law (5 U.S.C. 6103):

• New Year's Day (January 1).
• Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Third Monday in January).
• Washington's Birthday (Third Monday in February).
• Memorial Day (Last Monday in May).
• Independence Day (July 4).
• Labor Day (First Monday in September).
• Columbus Day (Second Monday in October).
• Veterans Day (November 11).
• Thanksgiving Day (Fourth Thursday in November).
• Christmas Day (December 25).

For information on the observation of these holidays within Federal employee work schedules, please see the Federal holidays fact sheet at http://www.opm.gov/oca/WORKSCH/HTML/HOLIDAY.asp.

I subscribe to my chosen religious (Christian) holidays and I appreciate that this is an option; it is here I expect to see holidays associated with my Christianity. "Holi" is not a part of my chosen religion and according to law (per above) it is not a US Holiday, it is a Hindu festival. It needs to be removed. Thanks Apple, we'd like this corrected.

Apparently you have not been following the long, drawn out, painful saga here. What you have listed above is exactly what Apple tried to do - put out an actual US Holidays calendar. And what happened? Thousands of Christians accused Apple of all sorts of things because Easter was no longer showing. Did it matter that they could download a Christian calendar with all important Christian holidays to augment the US Holidays one? Not one whit. Threats of lawsuits followed by promises to abandon all Apple products ensued and went on for days. Then, Apple re-issued the Calendar with Easter put back on it. In addition, they added important religious holidays for all of the other Major religions in the world. Since all of those religions are practiced by Americans all over the country.

But, NO, that WASN'T OK either. The Christians came back accusing Apple of trying to be "PC", or of acting like a bratty kid who decided that if you didn't it one way, then they would give it to you all ways.

It's a no-win situation. If you don't like the new US Holiday Calendar, unsubscribe from it, subscribe to a normal, secular, US Calendar, and, and you have already done, keep your subscription to the Religious calendar of your choice.

The amazing thing is that all of these things meld together so nicely, that one can truly customize their calendar to be exactly like they would like it to be. Unfortunately for the rest of us, a gang of entitled, overreacting, infantile people wanted it their way, and felt that they should not have to make even the tiniest effort to take advantage of the ability to customize. They wanted it their way and they wanted it that way NOW!!! 🙄

So, thank you for being a reasonable person. It is quite refreshing to find a person who understands the beauty of calendar subscriptions and how to use them. I find it amazing how people can make such a huge deal out of something so trivial that is so easily rectified. If only they could spend even a tiny bit of that energy toward trying to find solutions to real problems, like hunger, thirst, illness, hatred, you get it....

Cheers,

GB

People complained because Certain Christian religious holidays (that are NOT US holidays) were not on the calendar. Now people are complaining about seeing holidays for religions other than the one they subscribe to.

If you aren't satisfied with the holiday calendar provided by Apple, then remove it and subscribe to a calendar that shows the holidays you want to see instead.

Stokestack wrote:

Or, put LEGAL holidays on the calendar and leave all others off.

That's exactly what Apple did. And there was an outpouring of complaints that Easter (which is not a LEGAL holiday) was left off. So Apple put Easter (and equivalent holidays in importance from several other religions) on the US holidays calendar.

JNK50 wrote:

It would be good to have an option to remove holidays (such as Holi) that do not apply to you. Good suggestion for Apple.

You have that option... just unsubscribe from that calendar and subscribe to one that contains only what you want to see.

wendymoira wrote:

It's not a national holiday. Maybe a religious one? I want it off my calendar.

So is Easter and Good Friday.

wendymoira wrote:

I'd like to stick to actual US Holidays.

Apparently, so did Apple, but that didn't work out to well for them. The Christian Soldiers went on a crusade, and they capitulated. But, in doing so, they also decided to add other major Religious Holy Days for other major religions.

If you want a secular calendar, then you can subscribe to a secular calendar.

GB

Looks like a bug in their published calendar. I see it too - and came here with the same question. In this case, outside of reporting it to Apple via bugreporter.apple.com there's nothing that can be done - just ignore it.

Paramedicop wrote:

Looks like a bug in their published calendar. I see it too - and came here with the same question. In this case, outside of reporting it to Apple via bugreporter.apple.com there's nothing that can be done - just ignore it.

No, it's not a bug. It's a Hindu holiday, as as already been pointed out in this thread.

There are no legal national holidays in the USA. Congress can only make holidays for federal institutions, not national holidays across all states. The US Federal government has a holiday schedule for their employees - the civil service, but not a single one of those is a national holiday in any formal nor legal sense.

Most subscriptions to “US Holidays” will include the Federal Government employee holiday schedule, as well as all commonly recognized state holidays, days of remembrance or recognition, common religious holidays across all religions, etc.

Subscribd calendars have whatever the person, group or company who created the calendar chooses to include. You don’t have to subscribe however.

phjohnson9 wrote:

Disregard my reply above. As I have read thru this feed... I suggest remove ALL celebratory dates from our calendar! National. Religious. Even the "cats half birthday." Be responsible people and add to your own calendars your special dates. It is not that tough!!!! Then no complaints. You only have yourselves to blame if you miss that "cats half-birthday."

That's really easy to do. Un-check the U.S. Holidays calendar.

As has been explained several times in this thread, you already have that capability. Simply go to the Calendar app, tap Calendars at the bottom, and uncheck the Holidays calendar. Then you can put any event you want into the calendar.

I was with you until you threw in "PC crap." Having respect for ALL people, and especially all Americans, is NOT PC. It is being an American.

Why does anyone who offers an optional subscription calendar have to make it editable? If you don’t like it, don’t use it and make your own. Why is your choice of holidays Apple’s (or Google’s , timeandate.com’s, Microsoft’s, etc) or any subscriber content provider’s problem? Don’t subscribe if you don’t like it.

Apple and nobody else is forcing their list of holidays on anyone.

Of course there is no such thing as any “US religious holiday”. The first amendment to the constitution forbids Congress from ever creating any such thing for any denomination. There is also not one single act of Congress that establishes any National Holiday of any kind, since Congress does not have the power to make such a thing.