| Special Day | 04 Nov, 2025 | National Bison Day 2024
National Bison day is a day for appreciating the beauty and resilience of bison while also recognizing efforts to protect and preserve their populations. |
| Special Day | 10 Oct, 2025 | National walk to a park day
Why not get out and walk to a park at lunch time today? It is National walk to a park day, so go on. |
| Special Day | 05 Oct, 2025 | Be late for something day
We don't recommend it on a week day, but this year be late for something is what the day celebrates - so if you are late for something, you get a pass and can blame it on the Procrastinators Club of America! |
| Special Day | 26 Jul, 2025 | Talk in an elevator day, Saturday 26th
It's national 'Talk in an Elevator' Day... all day... so strike up a conversation with a stranger, but warn them why cos they might think you are a little odd. |
| Special Day | 05 Jun, 2025 | Solving plastic pollution
Microplastics are everywhere, in the sea, on beaches, in food and in our bodies! In the great old days we had paper bags - it's in movies - and they are renewable and recyclable. Use paper if you can. |
| Special Day | 20 May, 2025 | World Bee Day
We all depend on bees. Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or at least in part, on animal pollination, along with more than 75% of the world’s food crops and 35% of global agricultural land. |
| Special Day | 13 May, 2025 | Apple Pie Day
For those of us that like apple pie, today is our day. Yes, it's Apple Pie day, so bake one, buy one, take it to work to share. For those that like baking, we've added our favorite recipe |
| Special Day | 13 May, 2025 | Top Gun Day
As well as Apple Pie day, it's also Top Gun day, so, you know what to do. |
| Special Day | 12 May, 2025 | Vesak, Buddah's birthday and the Full Moon
This is the most sacred day to millions of Buddhists around the world as it was on the Day of Vesak two and a half millennia ago, in the year 623 B.C., that the Buddha was born, but his birthday moves every year as it follow the lunar not earth's cyc |
| Special Day | 11 May, 2025 | Migrating birds day
Bird conservation is a global issue. This year, the focus is on making cities friendlier to migrating birds and making our shared spaces more accessible to migrating birds. Think hummingbird - who wouldn't want to help? |
| Special Day | 09 May, 2025 | Month of Remembrance and Reconcilliation ends today
The Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation is a simple idea—to remember those who never returned from war. Behind every loss is a face, a voice, a life cut short. Whether you sit in silence, light candles or share stories, remembering means they are |
| Special Day | 07 May, 2025 | Beaufort Scale Day
The Beaufort scale was invented by an officer of the Royal British Navy. It is a simple scale for force of the wind based on a point system that started from zero to 12. You hear it in the shipping forecast |
| Special Day | 06 May, 2025 | National Nurses Week
Many people owe their health to dedicated nurses working in hospitals and clinics across the world. We’d be in a sorry state if it weren’t for their hard work and dedication to the cause! This week is a chance for everyone to say a big “thank you". |
| Special Day | 06 May, 2025 | No Diet Day
Put away the scales, forget the diet, and if it isn't someones birthday at work, get a cake anyway as it's official - May 6th is "No Diet Day". |
| Special Day | 05 May, 2025 | Great Lakes Awareness Day
Lake Superior Caves near Munising, Michigan. These five beautiful lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario — are celebrated on Great Lakes Awareness Day, |
| Special Day | 02 May, 2025 | World Tuna Day
Tuna accounts for 20% of the value of all marine capture fisheries and over eight percent of all globally traded seafood, but as a result of the amazing qualities of tuna, they are threatened by overwhelming demand. 1/3 are fished unsustainably. |
| Special Day | 01 May, 2025 | No Meat May
No Meat May started in Australia in 2013 with a group of 30 friends who wanted to make a difference and remind people all over the world about the negative impact that eating meat can have and encouraging them to make healthier choices by not eating |
| Special Day | 28 Apr, 2025 | World Day for Safety and Health at Work
Accidents can happen at work, and globally the number of deaths occurring as a result of work-related accidents is staggering. Be careful out there! |
| Special Day | 23 Apr, 2025 | Spanish Language Day
Spanish is the second language in the world by number of native speakers, and Mexico is the largest Spanish-speaking country. Around 4,000 Spanish terms are Arabic in origin, eg: olive, sugar, pillow and rice.
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| Special Day | 20 Apr, 2025 | Easter
Easter Sunday is the single most important holy day throughout Christianity.
Religious scholars believe the event occurred three days after the Romans crucified Jesus in roughly 30 AD. Christians therefore derive hope that they too will experience |
| Special Day | 13 Apr, 2025 | Scrabble day
Sunday is Scrabble day, why not have a game? Scrabble was originally called Lexiko, then Criss Cross, but when it was renamed Scrabble and Macy's took it on that sales took off. To help with your next game, here's a list of 2 & 3 letter words. |
| Special Day | 03 Apr, 2025 | Walk to work day
Friday is Walk to Work day. You don't have to, but it's spring, why not? |
| Special Day | 01 Apr, 2025 | Microsoft AI now senses brainwaves to replace your mouse / trackpad.
Active today, Microsoft is trialling an amazing new AI enhancement that senses subtle brain waves via bluetooth to move your mouse. TRY IT! Focus on the mouse pointer and think 'move left', 'move right' etc - it will take a few goes to work. |
| Special Day | 31 Mar, 2025 | Eiffel Tower Day
The Eiffel Tower officially opened on March 31st 1889 and its opening is celebrated on this day every year. The tower was designed by Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel also designed the framework for the Statue of Liberty, located in New York. |
| Special Day | 26 Mar, 2025 | Purple Day
Purple day was set to raise awareness and dispel myths about this neurological disease.
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| Special Day | 18 Mar, 2025 | Tug of War Day
Wednesday the 19th is international tug-of-war day, a great opportunity to have some fun with colleagues at lunchtime. Get a rope and form two teams. In Britain there is an association!
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| Special Day | 15 Mar, 2025 | World Sleep Day
Trouble sleeping? Saturday 15th is an annual event instigated by the World Sleep Society and aims to promote the advantages of healthy sleep cycles and raise awareness of sleep disorders and their direct effect on our health. |
| Special Day | 14 Mar, 2025 | World Sleep Day
Trouble sleeping? Friday is an annual event instigated by the World Sleep Society and aims to promote the advantages of healthy sleep cycles and raise awareness of sleep disorders and their direct effect on our health. |
| Special Day | 12 Mar, 2025 | Hitchcock Day
Which is your favorite Hich' film? Here are all of his fims by IMDB ranking
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| Special Day | 04 Mar, 2025 | International Waltz Day
Today you can Waltz around the office and when people ask why you can explain that it is international Waltz day - a dance started by german peasants and today is the most recognized dance in the world. |
| Special Day | 03 Mar, 2025 | World wildlife day
Today we celebrate wildlife, and consider in memorium those we have lost. |
| Special Day | 28 Feb, 2025 | Start of Ramadan
Ramadan starts at dusk today, starting a month of fasting. The start of Ramdan changes every year as the Islamic calendar is lunar, which is short by around 10 days a year, so next year it starts on the 17th Feb. |
| Special Day | 27 Feb, 2025 | National Chile Day
We think of chili as Mexican cuisine, but it was not invented in Mexico. It is also rooted in the Spanish and Native American cuisines. If you are tempted to celebrate chile tonight, try this recipe. |
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| Blog Post | 30 Jan, 2025 | Google Calendar Timesheet makes time tracking even easier
If your company uses Google Calendar and tracks time, uses a Google Sheets timesheet template, or wants to analyze employee time, things just got a whole lot easier. |
| Blog Post | 21 Jan, 2025 | Outlook calendar analytics tool, understand employee time better
Many businesses want to utilize Outlook calendar data analytics to: |
| Special Day | 18 Jan, 2025 | Winnie the Pooh day
Pooh sticks anyone? |
| Special Day | 17 Jan, 2025 | Benjamin Franklin
Franklin was amazing, a true polymath, a poet, politician, scientist, writer, diplomat, statesman, political philosopher, printer, publisher, and inventor - he left school at 10 and was mostly self taught. |
| Special Day | 14 Jan, 2025 | International Kite Day
Kite day commemorates the transition from winter to summer, as well as the forthcoming winter crop harvest. People go from all over the world to participate in the festivities.
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| Special Day | 13 Jan, 2025 | Rubber Ducky Day
So who came up with Rubber Ducks? Was there a reason behind their creation? Are they made of Rubber? Did the Queen of England really have a duck with a crown in her bath? |
| Special Day | 10 Jan, 2025 | Save the Eagle day
The bald eagle and the golden eagle are the only two species of eagles found in the U.S. As poaching, pesticides, human intervention, and other dangers continue to threaten eagle populations across the world, we need to come together to save and prot |
| Special Day | 09 Jan, 2025 | Balloon Ascension Day
Commemorates the first manned balloon flight to ever take place in America. The first balloon ascension event was witnessed by President George Washington, who was a patron of aviation pioneers. |
| Special Day | 09 Jan, 2025 | Word Nerd Day
Those of you who are always correcting someone’s pronunciation or using big words that no one understands, this is the day when appreciation for these skills is celebrated and enjoyed to the fullest! |
| Special Day | 07 Jan, 2025 | Merry Christmas
To our orthodox friends. Yes, today is Christmas in the orthodox church, so if you know someone from Belarus, Serbia, Palestine, Ethiopia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Eritrea, Kosovo, say Merry Christmas. |
| Special Day | 06 Jan, 2025 | Put a doctor out of business - eat an apple a day
The old adage came about because of the health benefits contained in the apple, and now is a great time (in the northern hemisphere) to plant an apple tree. |
| Special Day | 05 Jan, 2025 | National Keto Day
Following yesterday's pasta day, it's Keto day - did you know low carb / fasting not only helps you lose weight, but reduce appetite (honest), gain muscle (really), grow new brain cells (ture) and even boosts the immune system (all true) |
| Special Day | 04 Jan, 2025 | Spaghetti Day
We all have our favorite pasta dish, and today is the day to celebrate pasta, so we've shared a proper recipe for Carbonara made without cream in just 15 minutes. |
| Special Day | 01 Jan, 2025 | Happy New Year
Wishing you a very happy, healthy, safe and prosperous new year from everyone here at Timewatch. |
| Special Day | 25 Dec, 2024 | Merry Christmas
Wishing you a very merry Christmas and Hannukah from all of us at Timewatch. |
| Special Day | 11 Dec, 2024 | International Mountain Day
Mountains cover nearly a quarter of Earth's land surface, their slopes capture rainfall, replenish aquifers, sustain most of our freshwater needs also half of the world's biodiversity hotspots. Mountains are big! |
| Special Day | 04 Dec, 2024 | Prepare your list for Santa day
An important day for kids to put together their Santa list, so make sure they don't forget. Oh, and you can do yours too! |
| Special Day | 01 Dec, 2024 | Red Apple Day
If you like an apple, today is the day to indulge in the natural sweetness and juiciness of red apples |
| Special Day | 01 Dec, 2024 | Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony
The Rockefeller Christmas Tree, along with the Dyker Heights Christmas Lights, is the symbol of the holiday season in NYC. Why not come along! |
| Special Day | 28 Nov, 2024 | The 28th is Red Planet Day
To see Mars, you could stay up late and look just above the moon, you could watch a film about Mars and wonder why anyone would want to go there. Or, stay right here on earth and go to Wadi Rum in Jordan where this picture was taken! |
| Special Day | 26 Nov, 2024 | Sustainable Transport Day
Do your bit. You don't need to plug anything in, buy special fuel or tech, just go for a walk or if you have one, ride a bike today. |
| Special Day | 23 Nov, 2024 | It's everywhere in nature
From the spirals of galaxies, to sunflower seeds and snail shells, the Fibonachi series or Golden Rule is everywhere around us. |
| Special Day | 09 Nov, 2024 | World Freedom day
World Freedom Day 2024 is a global observance that commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall and celebrates the principles of freedom, democracy, and human rights. |
| Special Day | 05 Nov, 2024 | The UK celebrates Guy Fawkes Night
On November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes tried to assassinate King James I by blowing up Parliament's House of Lords. The plot failed, and to this day the Brits celebrate Fawkes' demise and the survival of their king |
| Blog Post | 04 Nov, 2024 | Best Team Calendar: Timewatch’s New Tool Boosts Efficiency
Team calendar users all want the same thing: to be able to see who is doing what, when, for how long, how much time employees still have available, and it needs to be quick and easy. All of this information is there in a traditional calendar, but you |
| Special Day | 01 Nov, 2024 | It's Movember
This month you may notice more men growing a mo. That's because its Movember, which was originally started to raise awareness of men's health issues. |
| Special Day | 31 Oct, 2024 | Halloween
Halloween 2023 on October 31 is undoubtedly the creepiest, most ghostly holiday of them all. Children dress up as Batman, the Joker, Wonder Woman, or some other favorite character; go to parties or walk their neighborhoods with jack o’ lanterns... |
| Special Day | 24 Oct, 2024 | United Nations Day
Today celebrates the UN, the one place on Earth where all the world’s nations can gather together, discuss common problems, and find shared solutions that benefit all of humanity. |
| Blog Post | 17 Oct, 2024 | Five Ways The Best Time Tracking & Timesheet System Can Make Your Business Better
The best time tracking software will give your company an excellent return on investment. There is no question that deploying a timesheet management system will cost you money, but that doesn’t mean you should consider using the cheapest option avail |
| Special Day | 04 Oct, 2024 | National Wildlife day
This day underlines the critical role of animals and plants in maintaining ecological balance and highlights the dangers they face from habitat loss, climate change, and illegal activities and the alarming rate at which species are disappearing. |
| Blog Post | 03 Oct, 2024 | How a time zone meeting planner makes working across time zones easy
Working across time zones is now commonplace for businesses and organizations. If you have teams or customers that straddle multiple time zones you’ll know that arranging meetings can be a challenge. Errors and missed appointments can be damaging to |
| Special Day | 02 Oct, 2024 | Audiophile day
Audiophile is used to mean someone who loves to reproduce sound to the highest quality, but the literal meaning of audiophile is someone that loves audio - music - which is most of us. So today, enjoy your favorite music. |
| Special Day | 02 Oct, 2024 | Audiophile day
Audiophiles are passionate about high fidelity. You do need good kit, but some spend fortunes unnecessarily - a $1million prize was offered to anyone who could demonstrate that $10,000 cables are any better than ordinary ones. No one has tried! |
| Special Day | 01 Oct, 2024 | National Racoon Appreciation Day
Raccoons do get a bad rap, but they do dig in garbage, steal food from campers, set up nests in people’s attics or chimneys, abuse chickens, steal their eggs and worse. But they are real characters and are simply doing their best to survive. |
| Special Day | 01 Oct, 2024 | National Racoon Day
Raccoons get a bit of a bad rap. Some think they are rodents, but they are more closely related to bears, cats and wolves. Sure they dig in garbage, steal food from campers etc., but they are real characters and are an important part of the ecosystem |
| Blog Post | 30 Sep, 2024 | Time Management Statistics (New Research in 2024)
As Timewatch develops time related products: resource scheduling, timesheets, time tracking and Outlook and Google Calendar add-ons, it has a keen interest in time management and regularly research and publish our research and time management statist |
| Blog Post | 30 Sep, 2024 | Time Management Statistics (New Research in 2024)
As Timewatch develops time tracking, resource scheduling and other tools that work with Outlook and Google calendars and has a keen interest in time management statistics, particularly how people and companies schedule, track and manage time. |
| Special Day | 30 Sep, 2024 | International Thunderbirds Day (no, not the car)
If you've not heard of Thunderbirds, the classic British puppet show from the 60's, it's worth a watch. We could do with an International Rescue! |
| Special Day | 29 Sep, 2024 | National Coffee Day
Today we celebrate the people that discovered this bean, stripped it, dried it, roasted it, brewed it in water and spread it around the world. Seriously, thank you! |
| Special Day | 26 Sep, 2024 | Love Note Day
Brighten a loved one's day today, by writing a message of kindness and affection in the form of a little note. Most people don't even know of this day, so is really effective if the recipient isn’t aware that Love Note Day even exists! |
| Special Day | 24 Sep, 2024 | Bluebird of happiness day!
The blue bird is considered to be a harbinger of joy, good luck and a harbinger of bliss and jubilation. We wish you a great Bluebird of Happiness Day and hope you enjoy this tiny creature that brings so much delight! |
| Special Day | 21 Sep, 2024 | International Day of Peace
Dedicated to world peace, and specifically the absence of war and violence, such as might be occasioned by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone for humanitarian aid access. The day was first established in 1981 and first observed in September 1982. |
| Special Day | 21 Sep, 2024 | World Peace Day
Observed by many around the world on the 21st September with the aim to have every day a day of peace. |
| Special Day | 19 Sep, 2024 | Talk like a pirate day
Can you get through the day without hearing or doing an Arrr or telling a bad pirate joke? Why are pirates called pirates? Because they arrrrrre! |
| Special Day | 17 Sep, 2024 | Country Music Day
If you are a fan, today is your day. If you are not a fan, International Country Music Day may be the day for you to find out more about this genre of music. |
| Special Day | 12 Sep, 2024 | World Dolphin Day
A day to celebrate the beauty of this extra ordinary creature on a day commemorating the brutal killing of 1428 Atlantic white-sided dolphins in the Faroe Islands in 2021 - the largest single slaughter of cetaceans in recorded history. |
| Special Day | 08 Sep, 2024 | World literacy day
Unesco say literacy is pretty good, allowing people to acquire broader knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, and behaviours to foster a culture of lasting peace based on respect for equality, justice etc. to learn more click here! |
| Special Day | 07 Sep, 2024 | Clean air, blue skies day
Who doesn't want clean air and blue skies? The UN asks for us to work together, across borders and boundaries to help reduce air pollution, leverage finance and investments towards air quality measures and solutions. |
| Special Day | 07 Sep, 2024 | National Hummingbird day
These beautiful, tiny creatures are about to go on a 4,000 mile migration, we can all help them prepare by putting out feeders and plant nectar plants for next year. Learn more here -> |
| Special Day | 30 Aug, 2024 | International Whale Shark Day
Ok, are they sharks, or are they whales? A whale shark is a shark, but even though they are the largest living species of shark and fish on our planet growing up to 20m, don't be alarmed - they eat plankton. |
| Special Day | 29 Aug, 2024 | International Day against Nuclear Tests
Bikini Atoll, once a beautiful tropical island in the pacific was destroyed in Nuclear tests and to this day is uninhabitable - a warning to us all of the dangers of nuclear testing as well as nuclear war.
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| Special Day | 29 Aug, 2024 | National lemon juice day
Try lemon instead of vinegar on your salad, squeeze some on your fish, steak, chops, fries or in hot water for a refreshing 'Sophia Loren', and then there is lemonade and lemon pie etc. What's not to love about lemons? |
| Special Day | 28 Aug, 2024 | National Bow Tie Day
If you see someone wearing a bow tie today don't worry, you've not missed a wedding or a Bond party, its' national bow tie day, and if you want to learn how to tie a bow tie, watch this. |
| Special Day | 26 Aug, 2024 | National Dog Day
Today celebrates dogs of all kinds and encourages fostering love and kindness through ownership and adoption, regardless of breed. |
| Special Day | 22 Aug, 2024 | National Pecan Pie Day
Pecans are native to North America. The first printed recipes for the pie started appearing in the late 1800s, but the classic pecan pie of today became popular in the 1930s by Karo, to help sell their corn syrup, a necessary ingredient in the pie. |
| Special Day | 21 Aug, 2024 | National Pecan pie day tomorrow
Brighten everyone's mood in the office tomorrow, make or buy some Pecan pie to have with morning coffee (or tea).
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| Special Day | 21 Aug, 2024 | National Spumoni day
Spumoni is a delicious Italian dessert made with gelato, whipped cream, and mix-ins like candied fruit, nuts, and chocolate pieces. Celebrate the day with some Spumoni - or make some. Here's the recipe: |
| Blog Post | 19 Aug, 2024 | How to schedule meetings across time zones
Scheduling meetings across time zones is easy, right? Actually, no it’s not. |
| Special Day | 13 Aug, 2024 | Left Handers Day
Stoneage implements were equally left and right handed. In the waring bronzeage, as the heart is on the left the shield was on the left and weapons in the right. Is this where right hand dominance came from? |
| Special Day | 12 Aug, 2024 | International Youth Day
Half of the people on our planet are 30 or younger, and this is expected to reach 57% by the end of 2030. Survey shows that 67% of people believe in a better future, with 15 to 17 year-olds being the most optimistic about this. |
| Special Day | 12 Aug, 2024 | World Elephant Day
We love elephants and seen human traits in them, yet through our actions we balance on the brink of seeing the last of these magnificent creature. Think of them today. |
| Special Day | 10 Aug, 2024 | Biofuel Day
Biofuel is carbon neutral and drecreases emissions by 50-85%. If interested, learn about Solazyme / TerraVia and other methods of bio fuel production. |
| Special Day | 09 Aug, 2024 | Indigenous Peoples Day
Indigenous Peoples are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment. They have retained social, cultural, economic and political characteristics that are distinct and unique. |
| Special Day | 08 Aug, 2024 | Infinity Day
Celebrate the number 8, celebrate Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, celebrate the universe, mathematics, the number of planets in the solar system, Oxygen, spider's and octopuses, 2 cubed, we could go on forever! |
| Special Day | 08 Aug, 2024 | International Cat Day
Today is infinity day AND International Cat Day. Which do you celebrate? The one that goes on and on and on, or the fluffy one that purrs? |
| Special Day | 06 Aug, 2024 | Hiroshima Day
Hiroshima Day is observed yearly on August 6 to commemorate the day the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II. The attack resulted in the immediate death of at least 70,000 people and a similar number injured. |
