About this calculator

Why it exists

People look up “how long has it been?” and then want the same number tomorrow without making an account. This page is that counter. Outpost is the iPhone app for people who also want a daily check-in on their phone. The two are separate. The app counts a start date of today as day one; this page counts completed days, so today is day 0.

How the days are counted

Completed calendar days, in the time zone your browser is set to. The quit date is day 0. The headline becomes 1 at the next local midnight. Hours follow the real time that passed, including the 23-hour and 25-hour days when the clocks change. A 29 February anniversary falls on 28 February when the year has no 29 February.

Link-preview pictures count the same calendar days in UTC. Near midnight, the picture can be one day off the page you open. The page is the count that matches your clock.

Privacy

The date, any weekly spend or drinks you type, and the colour theme are stored in localStorage on this device. Nothing is sent away to be calculated. There is no account and no tracking cookie. If you share the link, the date is in the address, so anyone with that link can see it. Workers logs are set to drop query strings, so that date is not written into them.

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