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Dates & Times

Use built-in keywords to refer to common dates and times.

today | 04/22/2026
yesterday | 04/21/2026
tomorrow | 04/23/2026
now | 12:00

today, yesterday, and tomorrow resolve to a date. now resolves to the current time of day (displayed as HH:mm).

Notes Calculator accepts several date input formats.

ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD):

2026-12-25 | 12/25/2026

Slash format — US (MM/DD/YYYY) or EU (DD/MM/YYYY, enabled in Settings):

04/22/2026 | 04/22/2026

Long-form — month name, day, and optional year:

April 22 2026 | 04/22/2026
Apr 22 | 04/22/2026
22 April 2026 | 04/22/2026

Reference specific weekdays relative to today.

next Monday | 04/27/2026
last Friday | 04/17/2026
Monday in 3 weeks | 05/18/2026

Add or subtract days from a date. A bare number is treated as days.

today + 7 | 04/29/2026
today + 3 days | 04/25/2026
today + 2 weeks | 05/06/2026
today - 1 | 04/21/2026

Subtract two dates to get a duration:

2026-12-25 - today | 247 days
next Monday - today | 5 days

Add a time amount to a date:

today + 3 hours | 04/22/2026
now + 90 minutes | 13:30

Append in <zone> to interpret a date or time in a specific timezone.

now in Tokyo | 21:00
today in UTC | 04/22/2026
2026-04-22 in America/New_York | 04/22/2026

Supported formats:

  • City names, single or multi-word: Tokyo, London, Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Ho Chi Minh City, Kuala Lumpur, and ~80 more.
  • Full IANA names: Asia/Tokyo, Europe/London, America/New_York.
  • US abbreviations: EST, EDT, CST, CDT, MST, MDT, PST, PDT, AKST, AKDT, HST.
  • Named US zones: eastern time, pacific time, central time, mountain time, atlantic time, hawaiian time.
  • Airport codes: LAX, JFK, LHR, CDG, NRT, SYD, HKG, and ~60 more.
  • GMT/UTC offsets: GMT, UTC, GMT+8, UTC-05:30.

When a zone’s calendar day differs from your local day (e.g. late evening in Vienna → next morning in Tokyo), the result includes the date so the day shift is visible:

now in Tokyo | 04/24/2026 00:25

Query the current time in any zone:

time in Tokyo | 21:00
Tokyo time | 21:00
date in Vancouver | 04/22/2026

Time difference between zones:

time difference between Tokyo and New York | 13 hours
difference between GMT+8 and EST | 13 hours

A duration result is displayed in human-readable form.

2026-12-25 - today | 247 days
tomorrow - now | 11 hours 59 minutes

Hover over any duration result to see the raw value in seconds.

ISO 8601 datetime (with required timezone):

2026-04-22T10:15:00Z | 04/22/2026
2026-04-22T10:15:00+01:00 | 04/22/2026

Convert between dates and Unix timestamps:

today to timestamp | 1745280000
1745280000 to date | 04/22/2025
current timestamp | 1776859200

Millisecond timestamps (≥ 10^11) are auto-detected:

1745280000000 to date | 04/22/2025

Format a date as ISO 8601:

today as iso | 2026-04-22T00:00:00.000Z
2026-04-22T10:15:00Z as iso8601 | 2026-04-22T10:15:00.000Z