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Calendars and holidays

With your permission (READ_CALENDAR), ClothesCast can read the calendars already synced to your phone to make the daily forecast more useful:

• Evening extras — if you have an evening event somewhere, the forecast can fold in the weather for that part of the day (e.g. “Tonight, rain, bring a jacket”).
• Birthdays and public holidays — these can theme the outfit card with special colors and messages.

The Calendar settings screen has two listings — Birthdays and Public holidays — that show the upcoming celebrations ClothesCast found in your synced calendars for the year ahead. Event titles stay on your device: they never appear in notifications, the spoken forecast, Cast, MQTT, or any analytics. See PRIVACY.md for the full boundary.

Why a holiday sometimes shows on the wrong date

You may notice a public holiday listed on a date that your Google Calendar app no longer shows — for example, a “King’s Birthday” appearing a week after the real one.

This isn’t ClothesCast inventing a date. ClothesCast reads holidays straight from your phone’s shared calendar storage — the same place your calendar app syncs Google’s “Holidays in " calendars into.

The catch: Google revises those holiday calendars, sometimes only days before the date, and the change isn’t always clean. A real example — the UK “King’s Birthday” for 2026 was moved from 20 June to 13 June on 16 June, four days beforehand. When Google moves a holiday like this, your phone usually picks up the new date, but the old copy can be left behind in your phone’s calendar storage as a leftover (“ghost”) entry. Google’s own Calendar app tidies that away in its display, but other apps that read your calendar — ClothesCast included — still see it until the storage is cleaned up.

So the wrong date you’re seeing is a stale entry sitting on your device, not a date ClothesCast made up.

How to fix it

A normal “sync now” or toggling account sync off and on usually won’t remove a ghost entry — your phone only deletes an event when the server explicitly tells it to, and a quietly-revised holiday sometimes never sends that signal. You have two reliable options, mild to thorough:

1. Re-subscribe to the holiday calendar. In the Google Calendar app: Menu (☰) → Settings → the affected **Holidays in ** calendar → turn it **off**, then **on** again. This re-fetches that calendar.
2. Clear the calendar cache (thorough). This rebuilds the shared calendar database from scratch and drops leftover entries. Clearing it while a sync is mid-flight tends to leave the calendar half-populated, so do it in this order:
   1. Settings → Passwords & accounts (or Accounts) → your Google account → Account sync → turn Calendar sync off.
   2. Settings → Apps, turn on Show system apps, open Calendar Storage → Storage & cache → Clear storage.
   3. Restart the phone.
   4. Turn Calendar sync back on, then open Google Calendar. The first full re-sync can take a few minutes — and sometimes a couple of attempts. If the calendar looks incomplete at first, give it time or pull down to refresh.

   Caution: this clears the calendar database for every account on the phone, not just a throwaway cache. Anything backed by a sync account (Google, Exchange, and the like) comes back on the next sync — but events in local, on-device-only calendars, or events you created that never synced anywhere, are not recoverable. If you have any local calendars, use option 1 instead, or back them up first (for example, export to iCal).

After either step, reopen ClothesCast’s Calendar settings and the stale entry should be gone.

Or just turn the calendar off in ClothesCast

If you’d rather ClothesCast ignore a particular holiday calendar entirely — ghost entries and all — open Calendar settings → Calendars and switch it off. That stops it theming outfits and appearing in the listings, and it doesn’t touch your Google Calendar in any way.

Reporting a wrong holiday to Google

Because the date originates in Google’s holiday calendar, the source fix is on Google’s side. You can report it from the Google Calendar app: Menu (☰) → Help & feedback → Send feedback, with a screenshot of the wrong date attached.