Date & time Difference

Time between dates

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Time between —

The same gap in other units

Days —

Weeks —

Whole weeks —

Months —

Years —

Hours —

Minutes —

Note Enter both dates

Midnight to midnight, in UTC

The same span reads very differently by unit. Ten years is 3,653 days, 87,672 hours or 5.26 million minutes. Small units make a span feel large, which is why countdowns to a wedding are quoted in days and prison sentences are not.

How to measure time between dates

1 Enter both dates.

2 Read the calendar breakdown at the top.

3 Every other unit is listed beneath it.

4 Hours and minutes assume whole days, with no time of day involved.

The hour and minute figures here assume midnight to midnight, since only dates are entered. That makes them exact multiples of 24 and 1,440 — useful for a rough sense of scale, and not the right tool if you need the gap between two specific moments. Anything crossing a daylight saving boundary also gains or loses an hour in local time, which is precisely why the calculation is done in UTC.

Questions

How many hours between two dates? −

Days times 24, assuming whole days from midnight to midnight.

Does this account for time of day? +

Does daylight saving affect it? +

How many minutes in a year? +

Which unit should I use? +

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