When you add the foreign national and religious holidays (for countries whose first letter begins with N - Z) to the Outlook Calendar, the following errors are noted. The Worldwide Holiday & Festival Site (www.holidayfestival.com) was used as a source for these corrections. For other Christian and non-sectarian countries, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: For Islamic Religious and National Holidays, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Country	Holiday Name	Correction
Netherlands	Boxing Day - St Stephen's Day	Title should be Boxing Day
Netherlands	Day of the Queen's Speech	Not a recognized national holiday.
Netherlands	Memorial Day	Not a recognized national holiday
Netherlands	Whitsunday	Title should be Whit Sunday
New Zealand	Boxing Day - StStephen's Day	Title should be Boxing Day
New Zealand	Westland Anniversary	Not a recognized national holiday
Norway	Labor Day	Title should be May Day
Norway	Maundy Thursday	title should be Holy Thursday
Norway	Whitmonday	Title should be Whit Monday
Norway	Whitsunday	Title should be Whit Sunday
Paraguay	Assumption Day	Title should be Founding of Asuncion
Paraguay	Chaco Peace Day	Title should be Chaco Armistice
Paraguay	Columbus Day	Not a recognized national holiday
Paraguay	Children's Day	Inadvertently omitted; should be August 16th
Paraguay	Boqueeron Battle Day	Inadvertently omitted; should be September 29th
Paraguay	Virgin of Caacupe, Immaculate Conception	Inadvertently omitted; should be December 8th
Peru	Christmas Eve	Not a recognized national holiday
Peru	Labor Day - May Day	Title should be Labour Day
Peru	Immaculate Conception	Inadvertently omitted; should be December 8th
Peru	Battle of Angamos	Inadvertently omitted; should be October 8th
Philippines	National Heroes Day	Date should be August 31st
Philippines	People Power Day	Title should be EDSA Revolution Day (People's Power Day), and the date should be February 22nd
Philippines	Bank Holiday	Inadvertently omitted; should be December 31st
Poland	3rd of May Constitution Anniversary	Title should be Constitution Day
Poland	Boxing Day	Title should be 2nd Day of Christmas
Poland	Labor Day	Title should be May Day
Portugal	Liberty's Day	Title should be Liberation Day
Portugal	Restoration of Independence Day	Title should be Independence Day/Youth Day
Puerto Rico	Anniversary of Euginio Maria de Hostos	Date should be January 11th
Puerto Rico	Anniversary of Jose de Diego	Date should be April 16th
Puerto Rico	Anniversary of Munoz Rivera	Date should be July 17th
Puerto Rico	Dia de Accion de Gracias	Not a recognized national holiday
Puerto Rico	Liberation Day	Title should be Emancipation Day
Puerto Rico	Natalicio de Jose C. Barbosa	Date should be July 27th
Puerto Rico	St John the Baptist	Inadvertently omitted; date should be June 24th
Russia	October Revolution Day	Title should be Day of Accord and Reconciliation
Russia	Spring and Labor Day (2 days)	Title should be International Labour Day/Spring Festival
Russia	Defenders of the Motherland Day	Inadvertently omitted; date should be February 23rd
Singapore	Deepavali	Date should be November 14th
Singapore	Hari Raya Puasa	Date should be December 16th
Slovak Republic	Constantin and Methodius	Title should be St. Cyril and St. Methodius
Slovak Republic	National Resistance Day	Title should be Anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising
Slovak Republic	New Years Day	Title should be Origin of the Slovak Republic
Slovak Republic	Three Kings Day	Title should be Catholic Epiphany
Spain	Columbus Day	Title should be Spanish National Day
Sweden	Labor Day	Title should be May Day
Sweden	Whitmonday	Title should be Whit Monday
Sweden	Whitsunday	Title should be Whit Sunday
Switzerland	All Saints Day	Not a recognized national holiday
Switzerland	Assumption Day	Not a recognized national holiday
Switzerland	Corpus Christi Day	Not a recognized national holiday
Switzerland	Day after New Year's Day	Title should be Berchtold's Day
Switzerland	Immaculate Conception Day	Not a recognized national holiday
Switzerland	Labor Day	Not a recognized national holiday
Switzerland	St Joseph Day	Not a recognized national holiday
Switzerland	Whitmonday	Title should be Whit Monday
Switzerland	Whitsunday	Title should be Whit Sunday
Thailand	Asalaha Bucha	Title should be Asarnha Bucha
Turkey	Kurban Bayram (1st day)	Date should be March 6th
United Kingdom	Spring Bank Holiday	Date should be June 4th, 2002
United Kingdom	Golden Jubilee	Missing National Holiday June 3, 2002
United States	Christmas Eve	Not a recognized national holiday
United States	Election Day	Not a recognized national holiday
United States	Lincoln's Birthday	Not a recognized national holiday
United States	New Year's Eve	Not a recognized national holiday
United States	Tax Day	Not a recognized national holiday
Uruguay	Columbus Day	Title should be Battle of Sarandi

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Use one of the following three methods to resolve errors in calendar holidays:

•	To correct erroneous holidays in existing the calendar, double click and manually edit each event to change the date or spelling error. -or-
•	Use the following steps to remove all the existing holiday events: 1. Open the Calendar. 2. On the View menu, point to Current View, and then click Annual Events. 3. On the View menu, point to Current View, and then click Customize Current View. 4. Click the Filters button, and then click the Clear All button to remove the filters that hide some events. 5. In the right column of the Annual Events view, you should see the Categories column with "Holiday (without quotation marks) as an entry. 6. Click to select the first entry in that column, and scroll down to the last entry. While holding the SHIFT key, click the last entry to highlight all of them, and then press the DELETE key. 7. Follow step 3 to correct the holiday entries. 8. On Tools menu, click Options, click Calendar Options, and the Add Holidays button. Click to select the holiday selection that you want to add, and then click OK. -or-
•	Use the following steps to edit the text file that is used as a source document for creating the events: 1. Close Microsoft Outlook. 2. Click Start, point to Find or Search, click Files or Folders, and type outlook.hol in the Named box. 3. In the Look in box, change the location to your local disk, and then click Find Next. 4. Hold down the CTRL key, right-click the file name, click the Open With menu, and then locate the Notepad.exe file. 5. Scroll to the country that you want to add or modify entries. 6. Make changes as needed, keeping with the following syntax: Holiday Name,YYYY/MM/DD (note there are no spaces between the name and the date.

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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