Court Deadline Calculator

Counting the days is the whole difficulty in a court deadline, so this page counts them the way Rule 6 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure does. Give it the triggering date and the number of days, say whether the period runs in calendar days or court days, and it excludes the first day, includes the last, moves the deadline off a weekend or a federal holiday, and adds the three calendar days that service by mail earns under Rule 6(d). A second action runs the count backward from a hearing date, where a weekend pushes the deadline earlier rather than later, and a third lists the federal holidays for any year on the days they are actually observed. Jurisdictions differ on every one of these points, so treat it as day counting rather than as advice about your deadline.