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?