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wa1oui Author

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Strange holiday in US Holidays Calendar

Anyone else have the new holiday "Holi" in their US Holidays Calendar for Friday March 2? Sadly it can't be deleted.

Here's the contents of the vcard for that special day:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

CALSCALE:GREGORIAN

VERSION:2.0

X-WR-CALNAME:Holi

METHOD:PUBLISH

PRODID:-//Apple Inc.//Mac OS X 10.13.3//EN

BEGIN:VEVENT

TRANSP:TRANSPARENT

DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180303

UID:faacda22-08f6-3d52-90fa-987f9f43c252

DTSTAMP:20180220T075910Z

SEQUENCE:0

CLASS:PUBLIC

X-APPLE-UNIVERSAL-ID:fc0ee209-a97f-e471-570a-252b76fa52e0

CATEGORIES:Holidays

X-APPLE-TRAVEL-ADVISORY-BEHAVIOR:AUTOMATIC

SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-US:Holi

DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180302

CREATED:20180222T224100Z

BEGIN:VALARM

X-WR-ALARMUID:5399506E-5E28-4332-8F9A-58E5BF00FF48

UID:5399506E-5E28-4332-8F9A-58E5BF00FF48

TRIGGER:-PT15H

ATTACH;VALUE=URI:Basso

X-APPLE-LOCAL-DEFAULT-ALARM:TRUE

ACTION:AUDIO

X-APPLE-DEFAULT-ALARM:TRUE

END:VALARM

END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR

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Posted on Feb 27, 2018 7:51 AM

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Pixiegirlie

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Posted on Feb 27, 2018 11:15 AM

No one is "distressed" because a Hindu holiday is in the calendar.

I would like the option of getting rid of the holidays that are not either Christian or National holidays, mostly because it affects me personally or any business I would need to (or not) do on that date. This is a new item that just popped up in the last week, so people are just asking how to rid it from the calendar, keeping the holidays we'd like. The feedback link? Helpful. The rest of the post? No.

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Mar 18, 2018 1:45 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

It is not nevessary to say it over and over again. By saying Apple should allow changes, it is implied that I understand the changes cannot be made now. And the history has been explained as well. However it got to where its current state is not relevant to my assessment of the functionality now. Just wanted to correct your assumption that no one is distressed and explain why.

dgock

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Mar 22, 2018 12:07 PM in response to wa1oui

But how is that a US Holiday? Why are we not able to modify the US Holidays calendar so it only has Federal US Holidays? Or why not create an alternate calendar with just US Holidays and maybe do calendars for each faith independently as there are some conflicts between certain faiths? There are so many ways Apple could have done this less offensively.

Mar 22, 2018 12:06 PM in response to dgock

dgock wrote:

But how is that a US Holiday? Why are we not able to modify the US Holidays calendar so it only has the US Holidays? Or why not create an alternate calendar with just US Holidays and maybe do calendars for each faith independently as there are some conflicts between certain faiths? There are so many ways Apple could have done this less offensively.

But, MOST people don't consider the celebrations of other people/religions/beliefs "offensive"

As has been stated repeatedly in this thread, it is very easy to subscribe to any calendar that matches your sensibilities.

Mar 22, 2018 12:38 PM in response to dgock

dgock wrote:

But how is that a US Holiday? Why are we not able to modify the US Holidays calendar so it only has Federal US Holidays? Or why not create an alternate calendar with just US Holidays and maybe do calendars for each faith independently as there are some conflicts between certain faiths? There are so many ways Apple could have done this less offensively.

Offensively!?! Are you serious? Is having a handful of holidays that you don't celebrate showing up on your calendar really "offensive"? How about considering it a learning opportunity? It gives you a chance to find out what your fellow citizens are celebrating. The fact that Apple put Holi on the calendar caused me to look it up, learn about it, learn about how many of my fellow citizens are Hindu and might be celebrating this rather lovely sounding holiday.

macjack

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Feb 27, 2018 8:01 AM in response to wa1oui

Yes, everyone has it now, it is a Hindu holiday.

wa1oui Author

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Mar 12, 2018 2:43 PM in response to wa1oui

As mentioned at the top of the thread, we can always contact Apple at Feedback - Calendar - Apple and let them know our feelings.

Mar 5, 2018 2:17 PM in response to Pixiegirlie

It’s just clutter that can’t be removed. Apple is drifting towards Windows. Ugh.

Mar 6, 2018 8:45 AM in response to wa1oui

Same problem on my macBook Pro and all iOS devices. Wish Apple would find a way to get this off the calendar since the user has no apparent control over it.

wa1oui Author

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Mar 8, 2018 8:49 AM in response to dennisfrombellmore

Yes, Holi is a Hindu holiday I was told (I'm the thread starter), way up in this thread.

Yer_Man

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Mar 12, 2018 4:49 PM in response to newburymac

Why tell us? We can't change anything. As has been said multiple times already, tell Apple via the feedback mechanism.

Patti

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Mar 13, 2018 6:47 AM in response to wa1oui

You are not the only one with this strange holiday and it is not just on March 2, 2018. It is always in March but different days and started in 2017.

Mar 13, 2018 8:22 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

It seems like you are just here to cause trouble and not provide any useful responses for anyone.

Mar 13, 2018 8:27 AM in response to iphone_user987654321

iphone_user987654321 wrote:

It seems like you are just here to cause trouble and not provide any useful responses for anyone.

If stating FACTS equates to causing trouble I plead guilty.

Mar 13, 2018 9:15 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

+1 😉

Mar 18, 2018 10:25 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

Was there another article on some anti-imigrant leaning website about this? It had all rather died down. Now the drive bys are starting again.

Strange holiday in US Holidays Calendar