Banks close. Meetings still need a date.
A public holiday and a bank closing day are cousins, not twins. Columbus Day and Veterans Day close US banks while plenty of offices keep going. Euro payments follow TARGET2, not your office kitchen calendar. Friday we taught Time of Meeting to keep those apart.
Business days, bank days, or both
You can now ask for three flavours of date maths for a country:
- Business days skip weekends and public holidays.
- Bank days skip weekends and bank closing days.
- Combined skips weekends, public holidays, and bank closing days.
Bank closing days show up as their own mark on the planner. A public holiday still softens a meeting slot’s score; a bank closing day is noted, but it does not push the ranking around. Coverage for bank calendars starts with US Federal Reserve holidays, Danmarks Nationalbank, UK bank holidays, and TARGET2 for the euro area, for 2026 through 2028.
If you use Time of Meeting inside an AI assistant, the same choices are there. The public MCP listing is now 0.4.0, with the short line: fair meeting times across time zones, plus separate business-day and bank-day calculations. Sixteen read-only tools, still no login.
Holidays that open themselves
Same Friday, the Holidays pages stopped making you press a button just to see the year. Land on a country (or follow a link that already knows one) and the calendar is there. The Show holidays control stays for when you want a different country.
US calendars also start the week on Sunday now, the way wall calendars do over there. Wide desktop layouts get a side rail beside the months, so the year has a bit of company without crowding the grid.
A warmer “early or late”
Early and late hours on the planner kept the brown family, but we blended a touch of yellow in so they read warmer and stay clearly apart from night red and bank-holiday yellow — in light mode, dark mode, and the legend.
Try it
Open US holidays for 2026 and check that the week starts on Sunday. Or ask your assistant, through the Time of Meeting MCP, to add ten bank days to a date in the US and watch which closures it skips.