What is a day counter?

A day counter, or date-to-date calculator, is a useful resource that enables one to quickly and efficiently calculate the amount of days that lie between two dates. Take, for instance, counting down to your birthday (and we also have a birthday calculator) or figuring out the number of days that are left before an important deadline.

However, there is more. This date counter can also determine what date it will be after a particular target date. For example, if you are starting a 90-day fitness challenge, you can use the calculator to determine the end date of the challenge.

The Day Counter featured above can be applied in scenarios such as counting the remaining days for a birthday or calculating the approximate days of pregnancy into the pregnancy, tracking the remaining business days for a project, etc.

Using The Day Counter

In order to utilize the day counter, begin by choosing a specific month, date, and year from the respective drop-down menus. Additionally, check the box that says “include end day” if the end day counts towards the total. For example, if a project deadline is at 11:59 on April 24th, and the current date is March 29th, those dates can be selected and checked to include the end day.

Alternatively, checking April 25th as the end date counter without the “include end day” ticked would yield the same result.

Included in the final output are the gaps with selected holidays. If choosing to include US holidays, check the box below marked “including common holidays.” The result can be altered in the table underneath to include other holidays, and they will be adjusted.

The date counter determines the difference in days between the given dates, assuming a standard workweek of Monday to Friday and a weekend of Saturday to Sunday. The weekday/weekend split is done by default, but you can specify or exclude holidays visually or textually if required.

Always the start date is counted as a full day counter, and the last date is counted as a full day if the include end day checkbox is selected, but not if the box is unticked. Day counters are not counted when stuck in the black hole of omitted dates.

Calculating days from the date

From the given start date, when a specific number of days is added or subtracted, the resulting date is fixed. The checkbox ‘count business days only’ specifies if weekends are included in the count. Assuming no breaks were taken (by checking the box), if Monday is selected and 7 days are added to it, the expected result should be Wednesday the following week and not Monday, and that’s exactly how the day counter behaves (it skips Saturday and Sunday).

Day of the week

The calculator displays the day of the week corresponding to the selected dates. Calculating the day of the week has a number of algorithms. One of these, the Doomsday rule, was created by John Conway, who, with some training, can do it in his head.

How to approach the “date to date” counter.

The date-to-date calculator can help you in three different ways:

1. If you input the start date counter alongside the end date, for example, “start date is dd/mm/yyyy, end date is dd/mm/yyyy, count the days in between.” As long as the end date is after the start date, the rest is covered by the calculator.
2. To find a date 57 days prior to a given date, for example, you would input the desired future date alongside the amount of days you want to move back.
3. To find a potential future date after counting forward a set number of days from a provided start date.

What happens if July 14th was the current date and you had an intricate project due, with the deadline being July 14th, and it needed to be presented by September 27th? Also keep in mind, the previous periodical review of your submitted project would take place 14 days before the final review.

These are the two questions you may want to ask yourself:

When will the date for the progress check take place?

Today, how many days left do you have until the progress check?

To find out the answer to the first question, you need to subtract September 27. This means you will have September 13 as a progress check date. If you put September 27 as an end date and 14 days as the days between, you will realize that the progress check is going to take place on September 13.

Now that we know the progress check dates, let’s calculate the difference in days from July 14 (which is the starting date) and September 13 (the ending date). The difference comes out to be 61 days, which is the amount of time left for you to complete your project.

Not confident if the outcome you arrived at is accurate?

No problem. Validate it with the date duration calculator to cross-check.

You can also calculate the number of working days between the two dates, which is the amount of workdays required!

FAQs

Is Saturday considered a working day?

No, Saturday is not a working day, because Saturday is the Jewish Shabbat, or a rest day, which, like the Christian Sabbath, was taken along with a holiday the other day of the week, forming the weekend.

What is the method of counting days?

In order to count days:

Assign each day of the week a number from 1 to 7.

If your days fall in the same week, count the difference between the lower date and the higher date.

If your days do not fall in the same week, add 7 to the later date for every week of difference and perform the same subtraction.

Do holidays count as business days?

No, bank holidays do not count as business days because no one is supposed to work on those days. If you are on a personal holiday but everyone else in the country is working, then your days off do count as business days.

What is the procedure to count 5 working days?

To count five working days, simply add five days onto a starting date, disregarding any weekends or public holidays that may occur during that timeframe.