Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and Pride Month have been removed from the Google Calendar app. Google also erased Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage Month. Google claims to have removed these holidays last year when it “standardized” its calendars to only include public holidays and national observances as classified by timeanddate.com.
“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.”-Google spokesman
Google says that those who wish to include additional holidays to their Google Calendar app can subscribe to a third-party calendar, import calendar events, or create their own events. Meanwhile, Google’s own community support page was full of Google Calendar users calling out the company for giving in to the president.
- Holidays shown in Google Calendar are public holidays and national observances as classified by timeanddate.com.
- These public holidays and national observances were standardized in 2024 to provide people with a consistent experience across the globe.
- If you wish to include additional holidays or observances, you can subscribe to a third-party calendar, import a calendar event, or create a recurring event. Visit the Google Calendar Help Center for more details on how to subscribe to calendars or import events.
- To view a country’s holidays and national observances, visit the Time and Date website. To share feedback with Time and Date, please visit their site here.
And please do send feedback to Google directly through the Calendar as well, while it may seem like this goes nowhere, it is all read and popular requests are taken into consideration.
Google had a tough decision to make. Appease the president or anger many of its customers. It’s obvious which way Google decided to go.
