Choose the rule before counting
A deadline is not defined by a universal counting convention. This calculator can move before or after an anchor date, count calendar days or selected working days, and either exclude the anchor date or count it as day 1. Choose only the settings stated by the statute, court rule, contract, policy, or instruction that governs your situation.
Weekends, holidays, and closures
Working-day mode skips the selected weekend pattern and up to three excluded dates that you enter. It does not supply a jurisdictional holiday calendar or automatically move a calendar-day deadline that lands on a closure. Substitute holidays, emergency closures, filing-system availability, and local office hours must be checked separately.
Verify important deadlines with the governing source
This is a date-planning aid, not legal advice. Deadline rules can change with jurisdiction, type of proceeding, method of service, event date, period length, extensions, time zone, cutoff time, and whether the last day is a non-working day. For a court, tax, benefits, immigration, employment, contractual, or other consequential deadline, verify the result with the current official rule or a qualified professional.