Google Calendar, in the eye of the hurricane for fulminating ephemeris as pride

The irruption of Donald Trump and his conservative policies beyond the seas is also being noticed in seemingly mundane things such as the ephemeris that make their way on Google Calendar. And in which in the United States The Google calendar in its online and mobile version has stopped including references to ephemeris such as the month of pride, the Black History Month (that is commemorated in February), el Women’s History Month (held in March) or the international day in memory of the victims of the Holocaust (January 27).

From the exile of these commemorative dates of Google Calendar The Verge for the first time during the past week. Consulted by the newspaper The GuardianMadison Cushman Veld, Google spokesman, now says that The inclusion of such ephemeris was not really “sustainable” for the Google Calendar team.

«Some years ago the Google Calendar team began to manually add a wide myriad of outstanding cultural moments from many countries throughout the globe. However, we received the ‘feedback’ that some events, sometimes of a local nature, were absent in the calendar. It was then that we became aware that introducing hundreds of ephemeris manually and also doing so on a global scale was neither scalable nor sustainable«, Explica Madison Cushman Veld.

Google says that the manual addition of local and global ephemeris was not “sustainable” for the Google Calendar team

«Already in mid -2024 we begin to show on Google Calendar only holidays and local and global ephemeris included in Timeanddate.comthus allowing our own users to add other potentially relevant dates, ”adds Mountain View company spokeswoman.

The eradication of ephemeris as a month of pride or the Black History Month on Google Calendar, which has caused a deep discomfort in a good number of users, is in any case Only one of the multiple changes made by the company led by L succinity Pichai since Donald Trump began his second term at the head of the White House.

Following the wake of many other companies that in recent months have substantially diminish their seas their diversity, equity and inclusion (Dei) policies, Google has decided to give folder to the diversity objectives for which it was governed so far for the hiring of personnel and has also decided to review some of its initiatives ofi.

In this same line, Google Maps has also given the name of the Gulf of Mexico on its mapsa nomenclature that had been used since the 16th century and has now been replaced by the name of Gulf of America.

The company wanted to clarify, anyway, that the elimination of ephemeris as the month of pride in Google Calendar will have no impact on Google Doodlesa function that celebrates outstanding dates on the home giant’s home page through colorful digital works of art. “Google continues to actively celebrate and promote cultural moments in its products,” emphasizes the multinational. On YouTube Music there is, without going any further, further a “playlist” consecrated to Black History Month.