Google calendar can't grok holidays?

[cellio]

When I use the Google calendar in a browser on my desktop, I can see the two sets of holidays I've selected (US and Jewish) just fine. I used to see them on my Android phone, too. In September I noticed that it wasn't showing me Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot, but I was busy and didn't investigate. I don't remember if it showed me Labor Day.

I pretty much only need this information on phone when I'm out somewhere trying to schedule something a few months out. In other words, when I'm at a doctor's or dentist's office trying to schedule the next appointment.

I had a dentist appointment last week so this annoyance is fresh in my mind again. I found lots of trails from other people trying to solve this problem (DenverCoder9, what did you see??), but no working answers. And then, in poking around on my phone more, I saw that it does have an entry for Black Friday -- but not for Thanksgiving the day before. I didn't put that there, so it must be coming from the US calendar.

Where the heck are my holidays? Why is this hard, and what happened a few months ago to mess them up?

Comments

[cellio]

Google has it in for me; the latest Chrome update on my Mac is annoyingly busted in one way too. But one grump session at a time.

[sine_nomine]

I have no idea what happened... but I note that Outlook does not appear to show (US) Thanksgiving. I think this is because, many many years ago, they had Thanksgivng incorrectly on the calendar (as the last Thursday, not the 4th Thursday) and I guess it was easier to give up than get it right? Is likely also why my T-Mobile phone always has to be manually updated for the time changes... because when, by govvernment fiat, we changed the day on which it changed, T-Mobile couldn't get it right. I think they decided not to bother to re-code.

Perhaps something similar is going on with Google and your phone.... like a new update took them away and no one has bothered to re-code them?

[hudebnik]

I work at Google (not in Calendar, sorry), and that doesn't sound likely. Google is perfectly capable of making mistakes, but "not bothering to re-code" would be out of character. A bunch of missing U.S. holidays would be a pretty glaring error, and bad PR, which normally elevates things to top-priority-for-fixing.

U.S. Thanksgiving shows up on my Android phone, with the color-code for the "Holidays" calendar (as opposed to my work calendar or anything like that).

[cellio]

Black Friday shows up for me as a US holiday (with the color code), but not Thanksgiving the day before. Labor Day, Columbus Day, and (if Google counts it as a holiday) election day did not show up. Independence day was the last US holiday I got (before black Friday).

The last Jewish holiday that showed up for me is Erev Tisha b'Av in July. I don't know if Google codes Tisha b'Av separately; if so I didn't get it. I've found no Jewish holidays later than that.

All of these work fine in the desktop view. The appearance of black Friday is especially mystifying; it tells me that *something* is still being tracked. And, indeed, both calendars are turned on and if I go back in time I see appropriate entries. I've toggled them off and on and synced repeatedly -- no change. I tried to update the app just in case that's the problem, but couldn't figure out how -- it shows on the phone as "Calendar" but there is no "Calendar" or "Google Calendar" in the list of apps or even widgets. I updated "Google" (which I think is just search), but that didn't change anything.

In my searches I found a thread on a Google forum about this and tried to click on the "add comment" (or whatever) link, but even though I'm signed in, clicking it didn't do anything. That's on the desktop, in Chrome, by the way. So I'm at a loss at this point, alas.

[cellio]

Outlook holidays and T-Mobile's time service are both working fine for me, for what that's worth. I think it's gremlins.