Google Calendar has irked some users after dropping a host of events from its holiday list, including Pride Month, Black History Month and Jewish Heritage.
has irked some users after dropping a host of events from its holiday list, including Pride Month, Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage, Holocaust Remembrance Day and Hispanic Heritage.by a Google product expert and further corroborated by a Google spokesperson. The holidays were pulled from Calendar sometime in mid-2024., Google spokesperson Madison Cushman Veld explained that Calendar made the decision to scrub a litany of holidays from the app for practical reasons.
“For over a decade we’ve worked with timeanddate.com to show public holidays and national observances in Google Calendar,” Veld said. “Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world.” “We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable,” she continued. “So in mid-2024 we returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com globally, while allowing users to manually add other important moments.
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