# Add weekdays to date
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-weekdays-to-date/64123
**Category:** General
**Created:** [19 June 2022 04:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-weekdays-to-date/64123 "2022-06-19T04:48:17Z")
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### Author:  [@animalkingdoms](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/animalkingdoms)
#### Post date: [19 June 2022 04:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-weekdays-to-date/64123/1 "2022-06-19T04:48:18Z")
I am trying to add x number of business days to a date now() and have tried several methods without any success.
Business days meaning Monday to Friday
node-red-contrib-calc-next-work-days 0.0.6 looked promising, but it is counting every day including the weekends after many attempts and testing on two versions of nodered
It can exclude predefined 'holiday' days correctly.
I could do the method of adding all weekend days into the holiday fields and manage it that way, but it seems overly inefficient and a messy work around.
How would you add x number of weekdays/business days to a date in an efficient way that needs no future maintenance?
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### Author:  [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)
#### Post date: [19 June 2022 05:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-weekdays-to-date/64123/2 "2022-06-19T05:51:14Z")
You can use a function node instead, define the holidays and check for weekends:
```auto
const holidays = [
'2022-01-03', '2022-04-15', '2022-04-18', '2022-05-02', '2022-05-30', '2022-08-29', '2022-12-26', '2022-12-27',
'2023-01-02', '2023-04-07', '2023-04-10', '2023-05-01', '2023-05-29', '2023-08-28', '2023-12-25', '2023-12-26']
function nextBusinessDay(date){
date.setDate(date.getDate()+1);
if(date.getDay() % 6 == 0 || holidays.includes(date.getFullYear()+'-'+(date.getMonth()+1)+'-'+date.getDate())){
return nextBusinessDay(date)
}else
return date.getFullYear()+'-'+(date.getMonth()+1)+'-'+date.getDate()
}
msg.payload = nextBusinessDay(new Date())
return msg;
```
result: ` 2022-6-20`
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### Author:  [@animalkingdoms](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/animalkingdoms)
#### Post date: [19 June 2022 06:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-weekdays-to-date/64123/3 "2022-06-19T06:24:55Z")
Thanks - That still seems to count the weekend though.
If i modify it to be
` date.setDate(date.getDate()+10);` to add 10 business days it returns 29 June. where it should be 01 July if it was to not count saturday and sunday.
Unless im modifying that code wrong?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [18 August 2022 06:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-weekdays-to-date/64123/4 "2022-08-18T06:25:32Z")
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