{
  "id": "days-until-august-19",
  "version": "b0a502a5c08d",
  "status": "published",
  "name": "Days Until August 19",
  "question": "Days until August 19",
  "summary": "Counts the days from today, or any date you choose, to the next August 19, with its day of the week.",
  "category": "days",
  "subcategory": "countdowns",
  "url": "https://www.acalculator.org/days/days-until-august-19",
  "markdown": "https://www.acalculator.org/days/days-until-august-19.md",
  "kind": "function",
  "method": "Find the first August 19 on or after the start date, then count the days from the start date to it.",
  "assumptions": [
    "August 19 comes every year, so the count is never more than 365 days.",
    "The start date itself is not counted: from the day before August 19, the count is 1; on August 19 itself, it is 0.",
    "Start dates from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 2400 work for the count to August 19, the range the date field accepts.",
    "Today is the date on your own device, so the count to August 19 changes at midnight where you are. Dates are whole calendar days, so a daylight-saving change never adds or loses a day."
  ],
  "inputs": {
    "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "from": {
        "title": "Count from",
        "description": "The date to count from. Today, unless you change it.",
        "type": "string",
        "format": "date"
      }
    }
  },
  "outputs": {
    "days": {
      "label": "Days until August 19",
      "description": "Whole days from the start date to the next August 19; 0 on the day itself.",
      "format": "integer"
    },
    "date": {
      "label": "Date",
      "description": "The next August 19 on or after the start date.",
      "format": "date-long"
    },
    "weekday": {
      "label": "Day of the week",
      "description": "The weekday of that date.",
      "format": "text"
    },
    "weeks": {
      "label": "In weeks",
      "description": "The same number of days in weeks and days.",
      "format": "text"
    }
  },
  "defaultAnswer": {
    "inputs": {
      "from": "2026-09-30"
    },
    "outputs": {
      "days": 323,
      "date": "2027-08-19",
      "weekday": "Thursday",
      "weeks": "46 weeks and 1 day"
    },
    "text": "From September 30, 2026, there are 323 days until August 19 on Thursday, August 19, 2027."
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "given": {
        "from": "2027-08-19"
      },
      "expect": {
        "date": "2027-08-19",
        "days": 0
      },
      "source": "U.S. Naval Observatory, Leap Years: the Gregorian leap year rule (https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/leap_years); Python 3 datetime (docs/progress/WP-44/truth.py)"
    },
    {
      "given": {
        "from": "2027-01-01"
      },
      "expect": {
        "date": "2027-08-19",
        "days": 230
      },
      "source": "U.S. Naval Observatory, Leap Years: the Gregorian leap year rule (https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/leap_years); Python 3 datetime (docs/progress/WP-44/truth.py)"
    },
    {
      "given": {
        "from": "2027-08-20"
      },
      "expect": {
        "date": "2028-08-19",
        "days": 365
      },
      "source": "U.S. Naval Observatory, Leap Years: the Gregorian leap year rule (https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/leap_years); Python 3 datetime (docs/progress/WP-44/truth.py)"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "5 U.S.C. 6103 (federal holidays; weekend rule in 6103(b) and Executive Order 11582). Checked against OPM holiday schedules.",
    "Equinoxes and solstices: Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms (2nd ed., 1998), chapter 27, checked against the US Naval Observatory."
  ],
  "related": [
    "days-until-august-18",
    "days-until-august-20",
    "days-until-august-1",
    "days-until-august-2",
    "days-until-august-3",
    "days-until-august-4",
    "days-until-august-5",
    "days-until-august-6",
    "days-until-august-7",
    "days-until-august-8",
    "days-until-august-9",
    "days-until-august-10",
    "days-until-august-11",
    "days-until-august-12",
    "days-until-august-13",
    "days-until-august-14",
    "days-until-august-15",
    "days-until-august-16",
    "days-until-august-17",
    "days-until-august-21",
    "days-until-august-22",
    "days-until-august-23",
    "days-until-august-24",
    "days-until-august-25",
    "days-until-august-26",
    "days-until-august-27",
    "days-until-august-28",
    "days-until-august-29",
    "days-until-august-30",
    "days-until-august-31",
    "days-between-dates"
  ],
  "changelog": []
}