Eid al-Fitr is now a “US Holiday” according to Apple:
(Separately, nobody can write precisely precisely?)
How about some new phrases, e.g., “As American as Eid al-Fitr”?
(Eid al-Fitr is not on the analogous Google Calendar “Holidays in the United States”. Hatefully, neither Apple nor Google includes International Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31 every year) on the list of US Holidays.)
Related:
- Profiles in Corporate Courage (Apple offered Pride Edition products in 2021 and “is proud to support LGBTQ advocacy organizations”, but at the same time does not offer these sacred rainbow items in places where full LGBTQ rights have already been achieved, e.g., in the UAE (Wokipedia 2021: “Male homosexuality is illegal in the UAE, and is punishable by the death penalty under sharia law”))
Was hoping to learn the explanation for this Heisenberg holiday here, but, alas, no.
As far as I understand, both the precise beginning of the month of fasting (Ramandan) and its end (Eid al-Fitr) are given with relatively short notice (less than one week?) by some religious authorities in Saudi Arabia. Apparently they are based on naked eye observations of the new moon in that region (in Mekkah?). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Fitr#In_the_Gregorian_calendar
It doesn’t show up on Apple’s Taiwan Holidays calendar. Looks like Tomb Sweeping Day and Universal Children’s Day are coming up on Friday.
I will say that I enjoyed my Monday off (I am a public-school teacher in northern New Jersey)
Coffee houses stay open until 3 AM in my neck of queens.
Those gals sure get loud with enough coffee. If ya show up during the day during Ramadan, you can just hang out without buying anything because everyone is fasting. Then you go next door and get a big roast beef sa’mich and bring it back to the coffee house to eat with a big cup of coffee brewed in cream.
If yer feelin frisky practice yer karaoke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x2NJN5eQr8
the veiled wymon dig it.