If I bought something on 29th of May legally am I on day 14 or day 15 on June 12th? i.e. Does the clock start at "1" at time of purchase or reach "1" 24 hours after purchase?
if you bought the item on a Monday 1st (for e.g.), then I assume the 14 day period would end at midnight on the Sunday 14th.
Though I'd imagine most shops would give a days grace if they were closed on the 14th day
It isn't a statutory requirement, so check the terms of your contract. On their website, O2 say "within 14 days". That seems in agreement with your interpretation. Depends how much of a fuss you want to make really.
> It's very odd. We don't say a baby is one day ld the moment it is born do we?
And therein lies the difference between counting age and time.
It still amuses me to come across millennium plaques which were placed on 01/01/2000.
The 2nd millennium started on 01/01/2001, but we all agreed to ignore that fact in favour of going with the (obvious?) change of year number.
> It's very odd. We don't say a baby is one day ld the moment it is born do we?
In the UK, no, but in several countries in the Far East [including China] babies are counted as one year old on the day they're born. A baby born on 1 May 2015 will be 2 years old on 1 May 2016.
> And therein lies the difference between counting age and time.
It isn't quite the same thing though. Counting is concerned with how elements within a set of objects (in your example years) are named. The OP was concerned with the measurement of a defined period. Nowhere in the world would: "you have one year to get the report to me" mean "have it on my desk now"! "You have 14 days to return the goods" is similarly clear.
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