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Count Commenced Rental Billing Blocks From Pickup and Return Instants

A rental quoted by commenced blocks can change at a one-minute boundary. Enter offset-stamped pickup and return times and the billing-block length from the quote to see elapsed hours, whole blocks and allocated-but-unused hours.

1 · quote label | pickup YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM±HH:MM | return YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM±HH:MM

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HYPOTHESIS / PROTOTYPE — checkout unavailable. Calculation is local. A draft is saved automatically in this browser profile when storage is available; Reset to sample clears it. Optional Pro history stores only five summaries and has its own deletion control. State links encode your inputs and can remain in browser history, clipboard or recipients’ records; share only non-sensitive rows. Optional external AI formatting leaves this device. The required site analytics beacon reports page activity; shared URLs contain encoded inputs. Do not treat an encoded URL as private. The calculator has no input-collection endpoint.

Data note: The rental-period register processes quote label | pickup YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM±HH:MM | return YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM±HH:MM locally. Starter/sample selection and Run compute in this tab; no input is sent by the calculator. A local draft may be saved; explicit state-link sharing or optional external AI formatting can disclose inputs. Use non-sensitive labels.

Perspective: Before: a two-date trip description obscured a commenced-block boundary. After: elapsed instants and rounded billing blocks remain separate from supplier exceptions.

2 · Read the rental-period register

Elapsed-time arithmetic only, not rental-contract, refund, consumer-rights or legal advice. It models upward rounding of rolling blocks and omits grace periods, minimum charges and price rules. Confirm the quoted billing convention and exact accepted counter times with the provider before booking or disputing a charge.

Optional filing controls are a local prototype.

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Before using the rental-period register

Find the actual convention in the terms: rolling hours, calendar days, a weekly package and a desk-specific minimum can all behave differently. This model uses only rolling elapsed-hour blocks rounded upward. It does not add a grace period, extra-day rate, cancellation fee, tax or minimum bill. Offset-stamped times keep a clock change from silently appearing as an extra or missing hour. An offset can still be entered incorrectly, so compare it with the pickup and return itinerary. Use rows for alternative quote windows, not separate legs of one rental that you then expect the app to combine. The resulting block count is a precise question to ask a desk or provider, not a contract interpretation or a prediction of the final invoice.

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Elapsed-time arithmetic only, not rental-contract, refund, consumer-rights or legal advice. It models upward rounding of rolling blocks and omits grace periods, minimum charges and price rules. Confirm the quoted billing convention and exact accepted counter times with the provider before booking or disputing a charge.

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Optional AI formatting, never the calculation

Manual entry completes this rental-period register for free without signup. If available to you, the free AI Studio interface linked in the sources may format fictional or non-sensitive notes; external access may require an account. No API key or AI call is built into this tool. Free-tier content may be used to improve products. Review each cell and transcribe it to the labeled row schema; do not paste the JSON object into the row box.

Format only these fictional or non-sensitive notes for a rental-period register. Return strict JSON shaped as {"rows": [{"label": "string", "cells": ["string", "string"]}], "setting": "string"}. The columns are quote label | pickup YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM±HH:MM | return YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM±HH:MM; the setting is Length of one billing block in hours. Keep all supplied strings and quantities exactly; do not calculate, infer missing entries, invent dates or add advice. If any required value is missing, return an empty rows array and ask me for it separately. I will verify every cell against my source and manually transcribe rows using vertical bars before running the local calculator.

An AI response is not executed, fetched or trusted as a result. Missing values remain questions; the strict local parser checks the rows you actually enter.