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Count the days between two dates
Counts the days between two dates, optionally skipping weekends. Public holidays are not accounted for — those vary by country and would need a calendar per jurisdiction.
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How to use it
- 1Pick a start date and an end date.
- 2Choose whether to count all days or working days only.
- 3Read the total, plus the same span expressed in weeks, months and years.
Frequently asked questions
- Are the start and end dates counted?
- The count is the span between them — from the 1st to the 8th is 7 days. If you are counting days worked, or nights in a hotel, that is the number you want; if you are counting calendar days inclusive, add one.
- Which days count as working days?
- Monday to Friday. Weekends are skipped; public holidays are not, because they differ by country and by region within a country, and a calculator that guessed them would be wrong for most of its users without saying so.
- How are the months and years worked out?
- They are the day count expressed in average-length months and years, so it is a size, not a calendar count. For "how old is someone", a calendar-aware age calculation and this figure can differ by a day around leap years.
- Does it handle dates before 1970 or far in the future?
- Yes. The calculation is on calendar dates and has no Unix epoch involved, so birthdays in the 1940s and deadlines in the 2090s both work.