How Long Until the Weekend?
Counting to midnight at the start of Saturday.
Runs entirely in your browser
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- —Days total
- —Working days
- —Weeks
- —Hours
- —Minutes
The date is in the link itself, so it works for anyone who opens it.
The count above runs to 00:00 on Saturday in your own time zone. That is one of three defensible answers, and the page says which it picked rather than leaving you to guess.
The candidates are Friday at around 17:00, when work stops for most people; Friday at midnight, when the working week ends on the calendar; and Saturday at 00:00, when the weekend as a pair of days begins. The last of those is the only one that does not depend on somebody's hours, so it is the one counted here. If your Friday ends at five, set that time in the box and the count moves to it.
The working days figure beside the clock is the more practical number for most of the week: it is how many days of work stand between now and the weekend, weekend days excluded, so it reads five on a Monday and one on a Thursday.
Asked during the weekend, the count runs the other way and tells you how long it has been going. To count to the Friday instead, see the Friday countdown.
How to use it
- Read the count at the top: days, hours, minutes and seconds, moving as you watch.
- Look below it for the same span as whole days, weeks and working days.
- Change the date in the box to count down to anything else instead.
Questions
When exactly does the weekend start here?
At midnight between Friday and Saturday. There are two other reasonable answers, the end of Friday's working day and the end of Friday itself, and the difference between the earliest and the latest is about seven hours. Saturday at 00:00 is used because it is the only one that does not depend on what hours you work.
How do I count to five o'clock on Friday instead?
Put Friday's date in the box with the time set to 17:00. The count moves to that moment and keeps the seconds ticking, and the link then carries that exact target if you want to send it to somebody.
What does it show during the weekend?
It counts up, saying how long the weekend has been going, rather than skipping ahead to the next one. That is the honest reading on a Saturday afternoon, when the weekend is not five days away but several hours old.
How many hours is that, rather than days?
The count above is already in hours, minutes and seconds as well as days, and the figures below it give the whole span in each unit on its own. A day boundary is not a day of distance: at eight in the evening, tomorrow is four hours away rather than one day away, and it is the hours that decide whether something is worth starting tonight.
Which time zone is this counting in?
Yours, the one your device is set to. The target is midnight in your own local time rather than midnight UTC, because a question about a weekday is a question about the calendar on your wall. Someone reading this in another country sees their own answer, not a translation of anybody else's.
Does it keep counting while I leave the tab open?
Yes, it ticks once a second for as long as the page is open, and picks the count back up from the clock when you return to the tab. Nothing is stored between visits, so opening it again simply asks your clock what time it is now.
Is any of this sent anywhere?
No. The arithmetic runs in WebAssembly inside this tab, and the only thing it reads is your device clock. There is no account, no cookie of ours and no record of what you looked up. Load the page once and it keeps working with the network off.
The same question, other days
Each of these counts to the start of its own day, in your time zone, with the same live seconds and the same working days figure.
- How Long Until Monday
- How Long Until Tuesday
- How Long Until Wednesday
- How Long Until Thursday
- How Long Until Friday
- How Long Until Saturday
- How Long Until Sunday
- How Long Until Tomorrow
- How Long Until Morning
- How Many Days Until Christmas
- How Many Days Until Halloween
- How Many Days Until Thanksgiving
- How Many Days Until New Year
Your data stays on your device
Everything above runs inside your browser as WebAssembly compiled from Rust. Nothing you type is uploaded, logged or stored on a server. You can load this page once, go offline, and it still works.
This page makes no requests at all, to anywhere. That is not a promise in the copy: it is a Content-Security-Policy header your browser enforces, and connect-src on it is none. Open the network tab and watch nothing happen.