Holi is showing up in the "US Holidays" on my calendar. I know Apple wants to be accurate so please remove this or advise how I can remove this. I don't need Non-American holidays filling my calendar.
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canine2 wrote:
Maybe but it's not a US holiday. US holidays are not determined by population. Respectfully, Hindu or any holiday other than a US holiday have no importance to me. I would say Most Americans don't want to have them cluttering our calendars.
So what happened was slightly over a week ago Apple changed the calendar so it was strictly secular. Then this web site was full of Christians complaining about the removal of the "American holiday" Easter from their calendar. Go figure, Easter isn't any kind of official holiday. Anyway, a week later Easter reappeared but so did a bunch of other days, this time representing the entire diversity of the USA instead of the traditional mention of only Christian events. It isn't that Apple's calendar is changing to to be a "global calendar" as davidfrommobile writes, it's the US that is changing to be more diverse and has been ever since its inception.
Your real solution:
About holiday calendars on iOS and macOS - https://support.apple.com/HT208541 - "Learn how to display holiday calendars in the Calendar app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac."
Use iCloud calendar subscriptions - Apple Support - https://support.apple.com/HT202361
iCloud: Delete or hide an event in iCloud Calendar - https://support.apple.com/kb/PH2684?locale=en_US
How to add calendar events to your Calendar application for OS X/Mac OS and iOS - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-12741
https://www.apple.com/feedback/calendar.html
I think this series of discussions provides a different perspective on federal holidays: Feb 2018 post by Michael Black - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8293223?answerId=33068171022#33068171022 - "technically the US Federal Government Holidays are not national holidays since Congress only has powers to create holidays for federal institutions. So strictly speaking, the USA has no legally recognized national holidays." If you're interested in more along those lines https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8293916?start=90&tstart=0 and https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8296222?answerId=33080568022#33080568022 and https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8296222?answerId=33081933022#33081933022
I'll add a note that although Washington's birthday federal holiday was last week, this is not widely observed and in my city services such as garbage pickup continued on a normal schedule.
You mean the Christian Mafia is going to come after me?
Explain that to the millions of employees at Walmart. Or Amazon.
No, there is not, once again you are incorrect.
Why not supply us with a copy of this Official US Holiday List, a link will suffice.
Ed_29 wrote:
Thank you for supporting my point.
"Sometimes the suit of the rack fits and it's a grand day. Other times, you need to have the pants taken up."
Exactly, Apple won't allow me to have the pants taken up without getting rid of the pants.
Specifically they won't allow me to delete non-U.S. Holidays from their version of a U.S. Calendar without deleting all U.S. Holidays.
Ok, flawed analogy. Download a calendar that better meets your needs.
Holi is a U.S. holiday.
davidfrommobile wrote:
Lawrence, thanks for the post. You are wrong though. The federal holidays are the US holidays. They were synonymous until Apple began changing the calendar. I and many others want a calendar that only have the federal holidays. You are wrong to state those holidays only matter for federal employees. Have you ever tried to go to a bank or post office on a federal holiday? They are closed. Schools are out on those days too. So, having these holidays on my calendar helps me plan my week. I don’t want the calendar simply to know when these holidays are, I want the calendar to know when businesses may be closed and federal services inaccessible.
Of course Holi is a real holiday. If you read my posts you would have seen that I hope. I never disputed it as being celebrated or a real holiday. I just want a calendar that has the official federal (United States) holidays only.
I like the renaming of the calendar you propose. I am not offended by Holi or anything else showing up. I think the best solution is for Apple to have a US Federal Holidays calendar. That would solve this for everyone.
That’s a very fine distinction you are making. The federal holiday list just applies to federal employees. While many businesses follow them, many don’t. I worked for a company once that had no company- wide holidays; instead, you could take off any 11 days you wanted to. You can’t go to a post office on a federal holiday because the staff are considered government employees. However, I HAVE gone to banks on “federal” holidays. My bank will accept electronic bill payments on them, and allow cash withdrawals on them. And some local banks even have teller services open. And how many stores close on them these days?
Schools? Around here schools are closed on many religious holidays celebrated by many different religions. Should those be on the calendar?
Apple‘s original calendar was very close to what you suggest. It had federal employee holidays, and a few extras like April Fools Day. But there was an uproar because it didn’t have Easter or Good Friday (neither are federal employee holidays). We’ve been down that path, and it didn’t work. I, for one, liked it. So given that what you, me, and Apple agreed was a good idea didn’t work, what is the next best option?
April Fools Day also isn’t a US Holiday— did you resent its inclusion as well? What about Cinco de Mayo, particularly as it was factually inaccurate from the beginning to include it in a US Holidays calendar when it’s literally another country’s Independence Day, even though nobody ever made a fuss and pointed that out because they didn’t care about this until Apple decided to manually remove the #4 most celebrated holiday in the US? It only makes sense that a calendar entitled “US Holidays” that isn’t restricted to actual federal holidays would include the most celebrated holidays in the US. That’s just common sense.
Also, the calendar options that Apple gives us in Settings are Hebrew, Islamic and Chinese. Why should Christians need to download some separate 3rd party calendar, particularly when it would be the one most commonly used in the US?
I think it wouldn’t be such a stretch for Apple to provide several calendars
You can give your thoughts to Apple here: Apple Feedback
canine2 wrote:
Feels like they're forcing globalization on America.
Are you familiar with Apple's American workforce?
Holi is showing up in the "US Holidays"
