Time as infrastructure

Know when the world stops.

Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for 240 jurisdictions — every date carrying its evidence, its precision, and the day we last checked.

We do not promise a calendar that never changes. We promise you can see exactly what stands behind each date — and when one moves, we correct it, publish it, and tell the people it affects.

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Exchanges
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Calendar systems
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Where a bad date moves money

Worked answers, computed from the corpus rather than looked up.

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Where a date comes from

Most calendars hand you a date. This one hands you the date, what stands behind it, and how sure we are.

Authorities

Government gazettesstatutory holidays, decrees
Exchange noticestrading days, half-days
Central bankssettlement calendars
Revenue authoritiesfiling deadlines
Rules, not date lists 36 CALENDAR SYSTEMS

A rule holds for years we have never published, and changes when the rule changes — not when someone remembers to update a spreadsheet.

Every date labelled

verifiednamed authority
corroboratedsources agree
compiledassembled

Out

API · PDF · CSV · ICS

Where a date is an estimate — a lunisolar rule awaiting a moon-sighting decree — we return it as an estimate rather than a confident wrong answer.

Data for systems, dossiers for decisions

Calendar API

REST access across jurisdictions, exchanges and calendar systems, with assurance filters and inheritance — a subdivision falls back to its national rule unless it overrides it.

API plans

Country dossiers

PDF dossiers for operations, finance and HR — delivered with CSV and ICS appendices and a provenance section, so a person can act on them without touching an API.

Browse dossiers

Three tiers. We never inflate one for presentation.

Why this matters. A moon-sighting holiday is not a fact until the decree. Most calendar sources return a confident date anyway. We return an estimate and say the announcement is pending — so your code can decide whether that is good enough.

Who asks a calendar a hard question

Nine places where a date is not admin — it is the decision.

Payroll & HR

Which of our 14 markets shut on Thursday?

A regional holiday pays one state late.

Treasury

Bank holiday or market holiday?

Different closures. Confusing them moves money late.

Freight & customs

Last safe day to lodge before Golden Week?

Customs winds down before the holiday, not during.

Legal & filings

Does this filing date shift, and which way?

Some jurisdictions roll forward, some back.

See all nine, with worked answers

A day is more than its holidays

The same date carries several kinds of fact, and they are not the same kind of claim. We keep them in separate layers and label each one, so a statistical estimate can never be mistaken for a gazette.

Dated live

A government published it. Carries provenance and an assurance label.

  • Public holidays — 240 jurisdictions
  • Market closures — 57 exchanges
  • Tax deadlines
  • Announcements — decreed dates as they land
Computed live

Arithmetic, not authority. Exact or estimate — never "verified", because there is nobody to verify it against.

  • 36 calendar systems — lunar, lunisolar, solar
  • Daylight, sunrise and day length
  • Eclipses and sightings
Statistical live

A distribution over history. Says nothing about a specific future date, which is exactly why it is honest.

  • Weather normals — ~45 years, day by day
  • Seismic baseline
  • Flood, storm and air quality
  • Migration windows
Civic building

Dated like the first layer, and sourced the same way. Not yet shipped, so not yet sold.

  • Elections
  • One-off ceremonies
  • Festivals that do not close anything
  • EU institutional & TARGET2

Items in grey are being built and are not part of any plan until they ship.

Public holidays are just the first column

The dates are computed from 36 calendar systems — lunar, lunisolar, solar and astronomical.

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