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Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate

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Post by froindt »

efdee wrote: post #29
mattas wrote: post #27

I really like this. As easy as it is to be cynical about corporate-speak, I find that it's sometimes actually useful (except for the whole touching base and circling back jargon). Questions. When do weeks start? On Saturdays or Sundays? How do you account for partial weeks at the beginning/end of years?

I would understand someone asking if the week starts on Sunday or Monday, but I honest to God did not know some people start their week on Saturday.

I've seen Saturday for payroll week start. It naturally makes sense to align other business calendars accordingly.

It does get funky with overtime. If weather cancels a Monday-Friday shift, you might schedule a makeup shift on Saturday. What would typically be straight time in the same pay period is now going to cause overtime in the following week.

Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate

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Post by shawabawa3 »

HenryBemis wrote: post #107
schainks wrote: post #18

Feature request: Please add an endpoint that is by stock ticker (e.g. " https://corporate.watch/AAPL ", as some companies do their financial reporting on a different calendar, and it would be nice to reference with respect to their "datetime zone".

Yeah some publicly traded companies have a different 'beginning of the year' but good luck with finding and making one for each (even with some elaborate on-the-fly scripting). I think the whole effort was to make a funny landing page that would prompt visitors to check the bread-maker objectivetrackr.

But how long do I have before I need to hand in my deliverables at EOD???

This is going to push things back to NBD

Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate

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Post by sureIy »

froindt wrote: post #130
icameron wrote: post #37

You know what is really wild and caused a few bugs in corporate reporting apps? Every 5 or 6 years you need to account for a 14 week quarter. 13 * 7 is 364 so four 13 week quarters will not add up to a calendar year.

6-week December threw off a bunch of reporting last year for my company. The reporting group was not aware of the 6-week fiscal month, and the date dimension table didn't reflect it. Thankfully no particular harm was caused by it.

If it were in Europe you could have just taken a couple of weeks off work.
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