Year progress
A live ticker for the calendar year, quarter, month, and week, with an optional working-day count that subtracts weekends and the public holidays of any country.
Right now, UTC
Every millisecond from January 1 to December 31, in UTC. The bar updates once a minute because the percent does not move meaningfully on a shorter cadence.
The internet decided a few years ago that watching the year tick past was a kind of public spectacle. There is a Twitter bot that posts a progress bar once a day, and at this point millions of people have, at least once, paused on their commute to read what percentage of the year is gone. The tool is mostly used as a memento mori in a productivity culture that pretends time does not have a ceiling. It is a small instrument against the assumption that there is always more runway.
We added the quarter, month, week, and working-day variants because the calendar year is not always the unit that matters. A finance team plans in quarters. A salaried employee feels the month. A weekly standup measures the week. And anyone tracking projects against statutory leave or bank holidays wants the working-day version, which subtracts weekends and the public holidays of the country they actually work in. The math underneath is the same shape: how much of the chosen window has gone by, measured in milliseconds from the first moment to the last.
There is a Russell Davies essay somewhere arguing that the trick to a good year is paying attention to where it goes. This tool is a small part of that. It is not a planner and it does not nag you. It just shows you the number. What you do with it is up to you. If you want to plan around the shape of the calendar, the year grid visualizes every day in one image, and the working-days calculator counts business days between any two dates.
Every window is anchored to UTC so daylight-saving changes do not move the bar. The year window runs from January 1 at 00:00 UTC to December 31 at 23:59:59.999 UTC, and percent-elapsed is the millisecond ratio inside that range. Quarter, month, and week use the same approach with their own start and end. The working-day variant counts only Monday-to-Friday days and removes any public holiday that lands on a weekday. A holiday that falls on a Saturday or Sunday is not subtracted again because it was never a working day to begin with. Country holiday data comes from Nager.Date, the same source the working-days calculator uses, and is cached for a week.