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Whether you add ten days and increment the month or increment the month and add ten days, the result should be the same. The fundamental issue is of course that a month is not a fixed period of time like an hour, day or week is. It’s a variable length of time. Which day is a month after 27 February (in a non-leap year)? What does until mean in the following? You need to deliver this product within 2 days (until August 18, 2011) to meet your deadline and get paid. Does this mean that I have to deliver the produ. So let's say today is Monday and there will be a party on Friday. How should I say when the party is: the party is in 3 days or the party is in 4 days? Also, is this sequence of time periods c. For example, today is Tuesday, April 14th. If I say, last Saturday I mean April 11th; if I say, this Saturday I mean April 18th; and if I say next Saturday I mean April 25th - although I admit it gets a little ambiguous when this saturday is several days away. There's also the perennial question of whether the last day ends on the multiple of 24 hours from the time when the deadline was given, if it means midnight of that day, or closing time of that day, or what. And does 7 days mean 7 calendar days, or 7 business days? Etc. Would you think the next 10 days includes today? If not, would there be a clearer way to put it, to refer to today and the following 9 days? today (adverb) 1. on this present day: I will do it today. 2. at the present time; in these days: Today you seldom see horses. So the second meaning of today is more-or-less identical to nowadays , but that's not the meaning you want when you're trying to say you approve of something. Today is Oct. 13, 2010. It can be argued that in the last 3 months would be intuitively understood as the time frame from to , while in the past three months would mean July, August, and September. 0 Today is Monday. Last week is strictly the period of seven days ending at midnight on Sunday and the last two weeks is strictly the period of fourteen days ending at midnight on Sunday. No one would refer to anything occurring today, yesterday or the day before as taking place last week or in the last two weeks. I wouldn't worry about it. Hence, if within two working days were said on a Thursday, it would probably mean before the end of Monday. In conclusion, the expression within the next two days does not have an exact meaning, but most commonly means before the end of the day after tomorrow. If in doubt, check with the person who said it.

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