How days are counted

Case	Any part of day	At midnight
Arrive May 1, leave May 10	10 days	9 days
Same-day trip, no overnight	1 day	0 days
Leave Portugal and arrive in Spain on June 3	June 3 counts for both	June 3 counts for Spain
Two entries for the same country overlap	Days counted once, flagged	Days counted once, flagged
Stays in two countries overlap by more than a day	Flagged as an error to check	Flagged as an error to check
Departure before arrival	Rejected	Rejected
February 29 in a leap year	Counted like any day	Counted like any day

Dates are calendar dates as you record them in local time. The ledger never converts time zones, so a long flight that crosses the date line is recorded as you lived it. If a flight lands after midnight, record the local date of landing.

Planned stays are shown in their own column and in the timeline, and they are never added to actual totals or exported as presence. Unrecorded days are days up to today with no actual stay. They count for no country until you fill them.

Corrections are traceable. When you change a saved stay, the ledger records the field, the old value, the new value and the time, and the CSV export includes that history.

Where your ledger is kept

In this browser tab only, unless you tick "Keep my ledger in this browser". Then it is stored in your browser's local storage on this device, and FlagSage cannot see it. Browsers can delete local storage, private windows do not keep it, and a lost device loses it. Download a backup file you control, and restore it on any device. Clear all data removes it from the page and the browser.

Countries covered: 40 countries with day rules where recorded
Sources: Each rule links its source
Tax year: Any period you choose
Review: Not professionally reviewed
Sources checked November 8, 2026