Date & time Difference

Calendar days calculator

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Calendar days count every day, weekends and holidays included. Business days count only weekdays. A contract saying "within 30 days" means calendar days unless it says otherwise — and the gap is large: thirty working days is exactly six weeks, or 42 calendar days, so getting the kind of day wrong costs nearly a fortnight.

How to count calendar days

1 Enter both dates. The total counts every day in between, weekends and holidays alike.
2 Switch to inclusive counting if the period occupies both end days. A hotel stay, a hire period, a tenancy.
3 Leave it exclusive for a gap between two events, which is what a notice period usually means.
4 Use the business day calculator instead when the period is defined in working days.

Legal and contractual deadlines default to calendar days in most jurisdictions, and the exceptions are specific: court filing deadlines, statutory notice periods and some payment terms are often defined in working days. Where a document says only "days", calendar days is the safe reading, and where you are drafting one, saying which kind removes an argument that otherwise surfaces at the worst moment. Two further conventions catch people out. Some procedural rules count "clear days", excluding both the day the period starts and the day it ends, so three clear days from a Monday expires on the Friday rather than the Thursday. And most rules that set a calendar-day deadline also say that a deadline landing on a weekend or public holiday rolls to the next working day, so a calendar-day count can be right and still not be the date anything is actually due.

Questions

Any day at all, including weekends and public holidays.

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