The NRL season opens in the first week of March, and the AFL season follows in the second half of the month. 23 March 2029 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.
Some employers close early or run a shortened day on Friday, ahead of the weekend that follows. 23 March 2029 falls on this day, the last of the five working days counted in the total shown above for its week, immediately before Saturday and Sunday begin the two-day break most standard working arrangements observe.
The countdown to 23 March 2029 is measured from today's date and updates once every day, since the number of days, hours and minutes remaining changes continuously as the current date moves closer to it. Each visit to this page recalculates the figure fresh from the current moment, rather than storing a fixed number that would go stale over time.