# How do you treat weekends in metrics? In most metrics weekends are included as is. For example when we're talking about a cycle time of a pull request, 14 days means two full calendar weeks. This is a trade-off with the numbers being understandable and reflective of calendar time, while helping you drive improvement when the team is already doing great. There are other holidays and out-of-office days anyways included in these numbers, so we felt that just excluding weekends now would give you a false sense of accuracy. Over time the numbers will even out. We have an exception with the review times, since it's one of the more action-oriented metrics and there's a related Working Agreement. The review time excludes weekends so that the team can focus on getting a quick turnaround time. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://help.swarmia.com/definitions/frequently-asked-questions/how-do-you-treat-weekends-in-metrics.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.