Want to figure out the date that is exactly eight days before Feb 12, 2014 without counting?
Your starting date is February 12, 2014 so that means that 8 days earlier would be February 4, 2014.
You can check this by using the date difference calculator to measure the number of days before Feb 4, 2014 to Feb 12, 2014.
February 4, 2014 is a Tuesday. It is the 35th day of the year, and in the 6th week of the year (assuming each week starts on a Sunday), or the 1st quarter of the year. There are 28 days in this month. 2014 is not a leap year, so there are 365 days in this year. The short form for this date used in the United States is 02/04/2014, and almost everywhere else in the world it's 04/02/2014.
In some cases, you might want to skip weekends and count only the weekdays. This could be useful if you know you have a deadline based on a certain number of business days. If you are trying to see what day falls on the exact date difference of 8 weekdays before Feb 12, 2014, you can count up each day skipping Saturdays and Sundays.
Start your calculation with Feb 12, 2014, which falls on a Wednesday. Counting forward, the next day would be a Thursday.
To get exactly eight weekdays before Feb 12, 2014, you actually need to count 12 total days (including weekend days). That means that 8 weekdays before Feb 12, 2014 would be January 31, 2014.
If you're counting business days, don't forget to adjust this date for any holidays.
January 31, 2014 is a Friday. It is the 31st day of the year, and in the 31st week of the year (assuming each week starts on a Sunday), or the 1st quarter of the year. There are 31 days in this month. 2014 is not a leap year, so there are 365 days in this year. The short form for this date used in the United States is 01/31/2014, and almost everywhere else in the world it's 31/01/2014.
Type in the number of days and the exact date to calculate from. If you want to find a previous date, you can enter a negative number to figure out the number of days before the specified date.
This site provides an online Days Before Date Calculator to help you find the date that occurs exactly X days from a specific date. You can also enter a negative number to find out when X days before that date happened to fall. You can use this tool to figure out a deadline if you have a certain number of days remaining. Or read the full page to learn more about the due date if you're counting business days or weekdays only, skipping Saturday and Sunday. If you're trying to measure the number of days between two dates, you can switch to the Date Difference Calculator instead.