Deadline calculator
Pick a rule set, enter the day the clock started and how many days the rule gives you. You get the date, the count step by step, and the text of the rule that produced it, quoted from our verbatim corpus, with the row it came from. Nothing is sent anywhere; the computation runs in your browser.
Only five rule sets are offered, and only because those five computation-of-time rules are in our corpus as contiguous verbatim text. We do not compute under a rule we cannot quote.
Pick the rule set, the day of the act or event that starts the clock, and the number of days the rule gives you. The answer and the rule's own words appear here.
Deadlines from a docket
The calculator above counts a day span you type in. These two modes read a docket's entries and try to find the events our FRCP, FRAP and TRCP periods run from. They are estimates, built from the same verbatim rules, never a filing deadline anyone at a court has checked.
Runs entirely in your browser, like the day-count calculator above: no account, nothing uploaded. Paste one docket entry per line: an optional entry number, the date as YYYY-MM-DD, a tab or two spaces, then the description. Or paste a JSON array of {entry, date, description}. A line that cannot be read is listed below with why, never dropped silently.
Derived from the 0 docket entries supplied. CourtListener's RECAP coverage is per case, not per court: docket entries and documents are there only to the extent someone bought and uploaded them, so a case may be complete, partial, or metadata only. We cannot tell which this is.
An entry that is not here is UNKNOWN, not absent. No judgment entry in this list does not mean no judgment was entered, and an empty result does not mean you have no deadlines.
That can mean the entries do not mention an event a rule we hold runs from, or that the event has not happened yet in this list. Read the line above: it is not the same thing as having no deadlines.
- Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A): The entry date of the judgment or order being appealed.
- Tex. R. Civ. P. 99(b): Texas state dockets are not in CourtListener RECAP, which is federal only, so no CourtListener docket can supply this date. It has to be supplied by hand.
- Tex. R. Civ. P. 329b(a): Texas state dockets are not in CourtListener RECAP. A federal docket's judgment entry is an ENTRY date, not a Texas signing date, so it cannot be substituted here.
0 entries not used, with reasons
Estimated from docket entries under the periods quoted here. A docket entry's date is the date the clerk entered it; this does not know your scheduling order, your local rules, whether a post-judgment motion restarted an appeal period, or any service addition. Check each quoted rule.
What this is built on
Every rule set below is one row of the verbatim rules corpus (6,093 sections held word for word). The calculator quotes a span of that row at a recorded character offset, and a test re-cuts the same span out of the corpus file on every run, so a quote on this page cannot drift from the rule we actually hold.
Why holidays are not applied
Each of these rules rolls a deadline off a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday. We apply the first two and not the third, and we would rather say so than guess. The rules name the holiday authority instead of listing dates, and that authority is not in our corpus: 5 U.S.C. § 6103(a) for the federal rules, Tex. Gov't Code § 662.003 for Texas, RCW 1.16.050 for Washington. A calendar typed in from memory would be invented data, so there is none here. Where a rule does define “legal holiday” by name, as Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(a)(6) and Fed. R. App. P. 26(a)(6) do, the calculator shows you that text too, so you can see exactly what is missing.
Practically: if the date this page gives you falls on a holiday, the real deadline is later than the date shown. It is never earlier.
What we looked for and did not ship
Tex. R. App. P. 4.1 is in the corpus, but not in quotable form. The Texas appellate rules were extracted from a two-column PDF, and in row trap-4-1 the text of Rule 4.1(a) is interleaved line by line with the adjacent column, so no contiguous verbatim span of it exists to quote. Reflowing it would make the “verbatim” quote our reconstruction, so Texas appellate deadlines are left out until that row is re-extracted.
No holiday list of any kind is in the corpus: there is no U.S. Code title 5 slice, no Texas Government Code slice and no RCW sections at all. A test asserts that, so the day a holiday statute is ingested the test fails and this page has to be revisited rather than quietly staying wrong.
Use it the way a lawyer would
- This is arithmetic, not advice. It computes days under the rule quoted on the page and nothing else.
- It does not know which rule applies to your event. Choosing Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(a) does not make your period a 6(a) period.
- Periods stated in hours, periods counted backward from a hearing, and the clerk's-office inaccessibility extensions are separate subsections and are not computed here.
- Service additions, the three days added for service by mail under Tex. R. Civ. P. 21a, Wash. CR 6(e) or Wash. RAP 18.6(b), are not added. Add them yourself if they apply.
- Check the rule. The text is on the page so you can.