Google’s popular digital calendar already has several holidays highlighted, including Christmas, New Year and Easter is highlighted on their respective days, whether you have been able to add your own events to the calendar or not.
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Google Calendar removes holidays
In the calendar, International Women’s Day and the Pride month Juni’s beginning have also been marked-but no longer. From the beginning of the 2025, the tech giant has simply chosen to remove these among others.
In an interview with The Guardian, Google’s spokesperson says Madison Cushman Veld That the reason behind the decision was that Google simply could not cover all the holidays all over the world.
-A few years ago, the calendar team began to manually add a broader set of cultural holidays to a large number of countries around the world. We received feedback that some other events and countries were missing and to maintain hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally was not scalable or sustainable.
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The decision was made in connection with the fact that Donald Trump was elected as president and is not the only decision Google made in connection with the change of government, writes the newspaper.
In January, the company announced that Americans will be given a new name for the Mexican Gulf in Google Maps, namely US Gulf – this after the Trump executive order signed during his first day in the office.
However, holidays such as Christ’s Ascension, Valborg and Sweden’s National Day are still in Google Calendar for Swedish users.
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