The NRL season opens in the first week of March, and the AFL season follows in the second half of the month. 22 March 2028 falls inside the opening rounds of both national football codes, at the same point on the calendar where Melbourne's Moomba festival runs across the Victorian Labour Day long weekend each year.
Wednesday 22 March 2028 sits at the midpoint of the standard working week, between Monday's start and Friday's finish. Australians commonly call this point in the week hump day, marking the transition from the first half of the working week to the second, with two working days already complete and two still remaining before the weekend begins.
The hours and minutes shown in the countdown to 22 March 2028 are calculated against the clock and time zone set on the device displaying this page, and the countdown reaches zero at midnight local to that device. Two people in different time zones will see slightly different figures at the exact same moment, each reflecting their own local midnight.