Reference guide

How Date Difference Calculations Work

Understand calendar days, weekdays, calendar months, years, and time durations.

Calendar days

A day-difference tool measures elapsed calendar days between date boundaries. Inclusive counts and exclusive elapsed time are different concepts.

Business days

Our business-day tools count Monday through Friday and do not automatically know public holidays for every jurisdiction.

Months and years

Calendar months and years cannot always be replaced by a fixed number of days because month lengths and leap years vary.

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