Hi All,

I came back from a trip with my best buddy and my wife is upset that I've been away on a solo trip for 11 days. Calendar-wise, this may be correct as I departed on the 1st and returned on the 11th, so my trip falls on 11 different dates. But I departed in the morning and returned in the morning, so the actual absence was close to 24hrs*10. I was absent from work for 6 days (plus two weekends) which is 10 days. I also pointed out that she had exactly 10 breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, and bather our baby 10 times.

Following her logic, if I depart at 11:50pm on day 1 and return at 00:10am on day 3 I would be absent for three days, yet the actual absence would be just 24 hours and 20 minutes. Despite all this she insists that Flyertalk said it is 11 days. I couldn't find anything on this topic here, so here is my question: How to compute the actual travel days and how to reconcile the dates of departure/return with the actual days away?

Thanks for all thoughts.