# Calculating days for legal reasons

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 26, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-days-for-legal-reasons/616875 "2012-03-26T20:37:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-days-for-legal-reasons/616875/1 "2012-03-26T20:37:45Z")

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A lease ended at midnight May 30th and he sent out a letter dated 30 August. Considering that July has 31 days, did he send it out on the 60th day or the 61st day?

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**Author:** ![lawbuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@lawbuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawbuff)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-days-for-legal-reasons/616875/2 "2012-03-26T20:43:41Z")

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Your state laws should have “Time Computation” laws, maybe in the General Provisions chapter?

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**Author:** ![Intelligently\_Designed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intelligently_designed/32/20957_2.png) [@Intelligently\_Designed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intelligently_Designed)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-days-for-legal-reasons/616875/3 "2012-03-26T20:44:17Z")

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Well, by my count, it was on the 92nd day…

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-days-for-legal-reasons/616875/4 "2012-03-26T20:47:41Z")

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> [@Intelligently\_Designed](#):
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> Well, by my count, it was on the 92nd day…

Sorry. June 30th

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-days-for-legal-reasons/616875/5 "2012-03-26T20:51:54Z")

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61st day then. 31 days in July and the 30th day in August.

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-days-for-legal-reasons/616875/6 "2012-03-26T20:57:45Z")

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> [@lawbuff](#):
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> Your state laws should have “Time Computation” laws, maybe in the General Provisions chapter?

Thanks. It said “(1) In computing a period of days, the first day is excluded and the last day is included.” so it looks like July 1 didnt count as a day so it is 60 days if I’m counting right.

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**Author:** ![lawbuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@lawbuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawbuff)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-days-for-legal-reasons/616875/7 "2012-03-26T21:41:02Z")

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> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> Thanks. It said “(1) In computing a period of days, the first day is excluded and the last day is included.” so it looks like July 1 didnt count as a day so it is 60 days if I’m counting right.

You are welcome. Now there is a chance the Landlord-Tenant laws may have a different computation, you can check, but a state tries to keep everything uniform.