Seed growing - When do you start counting the days?

Maybe this goes grower to grower, but what is the general prefered time to start counting the days of your grow?

Day 1; seeds placed on moist papertowel?

or

Day 1; seeds popped above soil line?

Granted, simple question that only makes a few days difference, but just curious.

Thanks fellow growers!

Peace.

Day 1; seeds popped above soil line

Thanks abberation for the quick response! Any other takes on this?

Nah, time doesn't exist, the plants do there own thing.

From the time it sprouts up germination time doesn't matter!

MaiaPax said:

From the time it sprouts up germination time doesn't matter!

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Personally I count from the day I do somthing to the seed.

I usually only pay attention to days flowered.

Other than that I know about how long they have been vegging but not to the day.

I know some one who starts things on certain calendar days and just tries to keep to a general time frame.

Cool. Thanks everyone. Im wondering because Im still waiting on my preflowers to show and I'm now on day 42 (counting from starting the seeds as DoeEyed does). I thought they were supposed to show after 4 weeks or so and this now puts me in week 6 with nothing. Guess they're just late bloomers.