{"id":471974,"date":"2026-05-06T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/what-is-the-difference-between-in-the-day-on-the-day-and-during\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:58:00","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-in-the-day-on-the-day-and-during","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/what-is-the-difference-between-in-the-day-on-the-day-and-during\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between &#8220;in the day&#8221;, &#8220;on the day&#8221; and &#8220;during &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>None of these is something a fluent speaker would be likely to say. The most likely way to express the idea would be, &#8220;February 11 was really hectic, so I had to do a ton of work that day.&#8221; &#8220;During the day&#8221; is usually used when contrasting with &#8220;night&#8221;. Like, &#8220;I work during the day and spend the nights resting.&#8221; &#8220;In the day&#8221; is a somewhat informal way of referring to past times. Like, &#8220;In the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ell.stackexchange.com\/questions\/237624\/what-is-the-difference-between-in-the-day-on-the-day-and-during-the-day-i\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/ell.stackexchange.com\/questions\/237624\/what-is-the-difference-between-in-the-day-on-the-day-and-during-the-day-i<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None of these is something a fluent speaker would be likely to say. The most likely way to express the idea would be, &#8220;February 11&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kunsthaus-zurich-en","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}