Departures
Live countdowns.
Twenty-one live countdowns and a date calculator, each one ticking in real time. Every date is computed rather than looked up, so none of these pages can go stale.
Tools
Any two dates, not just the famous ones.
Holidays
The dates the whole calendar is built around.
- XMS Christmas A live countdown to Christmas Day, ticking in real time.
- NYE New Year A live countdown to New Year's Day, ticking in real time.
- HLW Halloween A live countdown to Halloween, ticking in real time.
- VAL Valentine's Day A live countdown to Valentine's Day, ticking in real time.
- EST Easter A live countdown to Easter Sunday, calculated properly for the current year.
- THX Thanksgiving A live countdown to US Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday in November.
- NYE New Year's Eve A live countdown to New Year's Eve, 31 December.
- FAT Father's Day A live countdown to Father's Day, the third Sunday in June in the UK and US.
- PAT St Patrick’s Day A live countdown to St Patrick's Day, 17 March.
- BOX Boxing Day A live countdown to Boxing Day, 26 December.
- JUL 4th of July A live countdown to Independence Day, 4 July.
Seasons
Counted from the meteorological start, which is a fixed date. Each page says where the astronomical one falls.
- SUM Summer A live countdown to the first day of summer, 1 June by the meteorological definition.
- SPR Spring A live countdown to the first day of spring, 1 March by the meteorological definition.
- AUT Autumn A live countdown to the first day of autumn, 1 September by the meteorological definition.
- WIN Winter A live countdown to the first day of winter, 1 December by the meteorological definition.
Shopping
Two dates that move every year, and are worth waiting for.
Everyday
The ones that come round again — weekly, monthly, or once in a while.
- F13 Friday the 13th A live countdown to the next Friday the 13th, found by walking the calendar forward.
- WKD The weekend A live countdown to the start of Saturday.
- LEP Leap day A live countdown to the next 29 February, found by applying the leap year rule rather than assuming one every four years.
- EOM End of the month A live countdown to the end of the current month.