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Result
Difference between Oct 28, 2023 and Dec 23,
2023:
1 months 26 days
or 8 weeks 0 days
or 56 calendar days
Within which, there are:
Weekend Days* 16
Holidays 2
Business Days 38

Holidays between Oct. 28, 2023 and Dec. 23, 2023

Veteran's Day Nov. 11, 2023
Thanksgiving Nov. 23, 2023

October 2023
S M T W T F S
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
...
December 2023
S M T W T F S
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31
* This calculator assumes the workweek is from Monday
to Friday and the weekend is Saturday and Sunday in a
seven-day week.

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End Dec 23 2023

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History of the Gregorian Calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the most prevalently used

calendar today. Within this calendar, a standard year
consists of 365 days with a leap day being introduced to
the month of February during a leap year. The months of
April, June, September, and November have 30 days,
while the rest have 31 days except for February, which
has 28 days in a standard year, and 29 in a leap year.
The Gregorian calendar is a reformed version of the
Julian calendar, which was itself a modification of the
ancient Roman calendar. The ancient Roman calendar
was believed to be an observational lunar calendar,
based on the cycles of the moon's phases. The Romans
were then believed to have adopted a 10-month calendar
with 304 days, leaving the remaining 50 or so days as an
unorganized winter. This calendar allowed the summer
and winter months to become completely misplaced,
leading to the adoption of more accurate calendars.
The Republican calendar later used by Rome followed
Greek calendars in its assumptions of 29.5 days in a
lunar cycle and 12.5 synodic months in a solar year,
which align every fourth year upon the addition of the
intercalary months of January and February. From this
point, many attempts were made to align the Republican
calendar with the solar year including the addition of an
extra month to certain years to supplant the lack of days
in a particular year. In 46 BC, the calendar was further
reformed by Julius Caesar, introducing an algorithm that
removed the dependence of calendars from the
observation of the new moon. In order to accomplish this,
Caesar inserted an additional 10 days into the
Republican calendar, making the total number of days in
a year 365. He also added the intercalation of a leap day
every fourth year, all in an attempt to further synchronize
the Roman calendar with the solar year.
Despite all efforts, the Julian calendar still required
further reform, since the calendar drifted with respect to
the equinoxes and solstices by approximately 11 minutes
per year. By 1582, this resulted in a difference of 10 days
from what was expected. Pope Gregory XIII addressed
this by essentially skipping 10 days in the date, making
the day after October 4, 1582, October 15. An
adjustment was also made to the algorithm of the Julian
calendar that changed which century years would be
considered leap years. Under the Gregorian calendar,
century years not divisible by 400 would not be leap
years. These changes reduced the error from 1 day in
128 years, to 1 day in 3,030 years with respect to the
current value of the mean solar year.
The adoption of the Gregorian calendar occurred slowly
over a period of centuries, and despite many proposals
to further reform the calendar, the Gregorian Calendar
still prevails as the most commonly used dating system
worldwide.

Holidays

A holiday is a day that, either by custom or by law, is set

aside such that regular activities like going to work or
school are suspended, or at least reduced. The term
"holiday" can be interpreted differently, depending on the
region. In the U.S., paid leave is typically referred to as
"vacation," while national, religious, or cultural days off
are referred to exclusively as "holiday." In some regions,
however, such as the United Kingdom or former British
colonies, the term holiday can also refer to paid leave.
Generally, holidays are meant to commemorate some
event, person, or group of cultural or religious
significance. Although certain holidays, such as
Christmas and New Year's Day, are widely celebrated
worldwide, most countries have their own set of holidays
that are specific to the country, and even the same
holidays may be observed differently within countries:
some may receive a full suspension of typical daily
activities, while others may only get partial days off.
Certain countries have holidays that essentially shut
down almost all businesses. As an example, in Brazil,
Carnaval do Brasil results in almost a full week in which
only industrial production, retail establishments, or
carnival-related businesses, function.
This calculator is mainly geared towards U.S. holidays,
but holidays specific to a given country can be entered
manually. Certain holidays can also be excluded. For a
further level of specificity, federal holidays in the U.S.
refer to holidays that have been recognized by the U.S.
government; on these days, non-essential federal
government offices are closed, and all federal employees
receive paid leave. This is not necessarily true in the
private sector, however, and which federal holidays a
private sector employee receives is largely dependent on
the discretion of the company. In some cases, an
employee who is required to work on a federal holiday
may receive compensation in the form of holiday pay in
addition to their regular wages.
Certain holidays such as New Year's Day are referred to
as "fixed holidays," since they fall on the same date
every year. Others, such as the birthday of Martin Luther
King, Jr., don't have a fixed date, because they occur on
a "floating Monday"; in this particular case, the holiday
occurs on the third Monday of January. Another widely
observed holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving, occurs on a
"floating Thursday," the fourth Thursday In November,
hence the dates of these holidays vary by year. Below
are two tables showing the dates of federal holidays in
the U.S. for 2023 and 2024.

2023 U.S. Federal Holidays

New Year's Day Jan. 1, 2023
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 16, 2023
President's Day Feb. 20, 2023
Memorial Day May. 29, 2023
Juneteenth Day Jun. 19, 2023
Independence Day Jul. 4, 2023
Labor Day Sep. 4, 2023
Columbus Day Oct. 9, 2023
Veteran's Day Nov. 11, 2023
Thanksgiving Nov. 23, 2023
Christmas Dec. 25, 2023

2024 U.S. Federal Holidays

New Year's Day Jan. 1, 2024
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 15, 2024
President's Day Feb. 19, 2024
Memorial Day May. 27, 2024
Juneteenth Day Jun. 19, 2024
Independence Day Jul. 4, 2024
Labor Day Sep. 2, 2024
Columbus Day Oct. 14, 2024
Veteran's Day Nov. 11, 2024
Thanksgiving Nov. 28, 2024
Christmas Dec. 25, 2024

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