Counting Business Days

How do most people count seven business days from May 10, 2024?

Out loud, with their index finger and a calendar.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Check out our free Legal Tools / Day Counter for a one-glance guide to common intervals in days or business days, before or after any date you choose.

And if you’re drafting a contract, date math isn’t something you need to foist on the parties. You can include specific, calculated dates right in the contract using AllDrafts.

Calculated fields let you specify any rule (7 business days, first business day of next month, 60 days before the lease expires in 10 years, etc.) and get an actual human-readable date right in the document, without worrying that you’ll forget to update it if the underlying agreement date or lease term changes. AllDrafts does it for you.

Our Date Math page has example formulas for many common scenarios; most of these will work in Excel or Google Sheets as well as in AllDrafts.