How to count sobriety days
Count completed midnights in your own time zone. The day you quit is day 0, and the number goes up at local midnight.
Pick the date you mean
Some people enter the day of their last drink. Others enter the first day they count as sober. The calculator does not choose for you. It counts forward from the date you type.
If you only know the day, leave the time blank. The clock then starts at midnight at the beginning of that date. Add a time if you want hours and minutes from a specific moment.
Days, hours and anniversaries
The headline is completed calendar days. It ignores the clock, so a daylight-saving night that is 23 or 25 hours long is still one day. Hours, minutes and the 24-hour mark follow the actual time that passed.
“1 year”, “2 years” and the other yearly rows are anniversaries: the same month and day. A 29 February quit date uses 28 February in a year that doesn’t have a 29 February. A leap day between two anniversaries makes the day count one higher than 365 times the number of years.
Chips and coins
Many mutual-support groups mark time with a chip or a coin. A common list is the first day, 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, six months, nine months, one year, and then each year. Colours, and whether the first day gets a token at all, are chosen by the group. There is no single official set.
Use the dates below as a calendar. Follow your own group for the token. This site is not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous or any other fellowship, and it does not issue chips.
| Mark | How it is dated here |
|---|---|
| 24 hours | The same clock time, one exact day later |
| 30, 60, 90 days | That many completed midnights |
| 6 and 9 months | The calendar date that many months later |
| 1 year and each year after | The anniversary of the quit date |
Link previews
A shared link uses your date. The page you open counts in your time zone. The picture in the link preview counts calendar days in UTC, so around midnight the preview can be a day away from the page. The preview does not change how your own count works.
Choose a date. Your count shows up here, on this device.
Days sober
0
- Weeks
- 0
- Hours
- 0
- Minutes
- 0
Elapsed time. Hours, minutes, seconds.
What date will I hit?
Counts forward from your quit date, or from today if you haven’t set one.
Milestones
They appear once you set a date. Day marks land at midnight. 24 hours is exact.
Coming up
Already reached
All milestones
Money and drinks
Optional. An estimate from a typical week, spread across the exact time since your quit date.
Questions
Should I count the day I had my last drink?
Only if that is the date you want to count from. Lots of people start the next day instead. Enter the date you have decided is day 0.
Why is Outpost one day ahead?
Outpost on iPhone counts a start date of today as day one. This page counts completed days, so today is day 0. Both are deliberate.
Do you store the date?
Only in this browser, so the form can refill. The maths does not leave the device. The share link does include the date, so anyone with the link can see it.