Google Calendar drops Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and More
surface Another repulsion It puts the company in a political crosswind, and Google will not be able to remove cultural holidays and events. Black History Month etc. From the calendar app it’s not ideology, it’s a problem of scaling.
Some social media users have recently noticed and started posting changes online, but at the same time as the company Google Maps criticized for changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of AmericaGoogle says that the calendar changes occur in mid-2024, and users can manually add their own compliance.
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Google now includes only “public holidays and national compliance” in its calendar, adding cultural and historical events such as Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pride Month, Hispanic Heritage Month and Women’s History Month. He says that there is no.
“Not scalable or sustainable”
Like other high-tech companiesGoogle is increasing surveillance for changes that have been made after the US presidential administration changes. Recent company Its diversity reduced He said that hiring and promotions as Google said were a response to court decisions, executive orders and roles as a federal contractor.
“For over 10 years, we’ve been working together timeanddate.com To demonstrate public holidays and national compliance on Google Calendar, the company’s representative said in a statement: “A few years ago, the calendar team manually added broader cultural moments in a wider range of countries around the world.” I’ve started doing it.”
The spokesman continued, “We’ve got feedback that several other events and countries are missing. Maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally is scalable or sustainable. It wasn’t. Compliance from Timeanddate.com allows users to manually add other important moments globally.”
The company also points out other ways it is advertised, Celebrating Black History Month and Lunar New Year.
The TimeanDate website includes a customized calendar that includes holidays only, holidays, compliance, and other options. “Calendar withHolidays and some compliance“It includes Cinco de Mayo, Black Friday and Father’s Day. Another version It includes many more, such as National Wear Red Day, Military Day, and the first day of Asia-Pacific American Heritage Month.