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Everyday Life Calculators

A small section for the arithmetic of dates. It covers how old someone is on a given day, when a birthday next falls and on which weekday, the gap between two dates, and how long remains until something you are counting down to.

Age, or the gap between two dates

The age calculator answers how much time has passed since a date, given in years, months and days, and handles the awkward cases such as a February 29 birthday. The date calculator answers the more general question of the distance between any two dates, or what date falls a given number of days from another. If the question involves a person, the age tool is usually the one; if it involves a deadline, the date tool is.

Age Calculator
for exact age in years, months and days on any date, leap days included.
Date Calculator
for the span between two dates, or a date a set number of days away.
Birthday Calculator
for the next birthday, the weekday it lands on, and the traditions attached to the date.

Where these calculations go wrong

Months are not a fixed length
Adding one month to January 31 has no obvious answer, and different systems resolve it differently. Age in years, months and days depends on that choice, which is why an age given in months can disagree slightly between tools that each did something defensible.

Related sections

  • Education for the wider date and time arithmetic, worked through with the formulas shown.