You didn't take into account calendars, you didn't take into account working days

and non-working days. So this is assuming that you're working everyday. So this is
18 days. But, what Microsoft Project is doing, is that this is the working day
duration. What about the calendar day duration? How much time difference is there
between October 26th and October 3rd? So what you can do is you can add a new
column. So let