Calendar spreads international cheer with holidays for 54 new countries

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Published 29 Jan 2016

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Next time you’re headed to The Bahamas, you won’t have to worry about missing Majority Rule Day.

This holiday several others that might not have been on your radar screen are among the celebrations from 54 different countries that can now be displayed in the Calendar app for Android iOS.  

You can select a particular country choose to display those holidays right inside your calendar.

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Calendar is more festive useful in a ton of new languages.

Calendar’s smart suggestions feature also gets some international flavor, with support for more than 30 new languages. This feature autosuggests people locations to add to a new calendar entry. A blog post outlines all the newly supported languages, which includes Spanish, Italian, German, French.

y this matters: Calendar is a major piece of the company’s apps suite, which is offered to businesses, academic institutions, government, of course general consumers. It often gets better over time with such improvements, since is quite good at adding context to information with all of the search language data it possesses.