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Ask HN: What seems longer... "One Month" or "30 days"?

7 points by webbruce ↗ HN
One/A Month

or

30 days?

Or rather which one do you feel you get more value out of?

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michaelpinto
From a marketing point of view it depends upon the context: For example "act now and we'll give you the first month free" sounds good yet "and if you don't like our product we'll give you up to thirty days to return it" sounds good in another context.
stray
Last month, 30 days seemed longer.

This month, a month seems longer.

Next month, they'll seem equal :-)

JordanCharters
I think 'A Month' sounds more Bold and because of this it seems longer than '30 Days'.

This is like how shopping goes, majority of products are priced 1 penny/cent under the round-up figure for example:

£14.99 instead of £15.00 - The lower number '14' making it sound like its less.

Good question by the way too!

robflynn
It's funny how different people have different perspectives on the matter. Though, I suppose that's why so much goes into research of such things.

For me, I like '$15' vs. '$14.99' or '$15.00'.

$15 looks smaller to me than $14.99 and I like round numbers.

Definitely a good question.

petervandijck
30 days is perceived as longer. That's why "30 days money back guarantee" is standard phrasing.
lovskogen
It's all in the context. "A whole month", "Every day for thirty days", and so on.
martinc
It depends if this is based on working days or not. A month of working days is usually on average only 20 actual days.