Might want to add a disclaimer in view of https://corporatewatch.org/ ("Corporate-critical news and research since 1996")
Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
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#162We learned in school to use week numbers in Sweden. I never realized the rest of the world didn't use it.
There is even this notorious website here called vecka.nu that just tells you the current week.
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#163Our corpo year starts May 1. Please add an offset functionality to your free solution immediately, as it has now become a core component of our operation, or we will be forced to take legal action. Also, we appreciate if you could sign a retroactive NDA with our legal team ASAP.
Nothing more corporate / enterprise than deciding the year starts at any point other than January 1st :) (yeah I know all about the fiscal year, which I also find hilarious)
not to be THAT NERD but in the UK at least, the financial year (April 6th - April 5th) was aligned with the start of the new year which was March 25th.
The old financial year started on 25th March, which was also new year's day (and also the point that the year incremented, so if you were knocking around on March 24th 1300 the next day would be March 25th 1301.
But when everyone changed to the Gregorian Calendar - which added 11 days to the calendar to make up for some sloppy Papal mathematicians who didn't believe in things like astronomy or leap years - the tax year had to be shifted to be April 6th, because while everyone else was happy to work around things, the tax office was NOT going to have a tax year that was 11 days shorter because that would have meant less money.
So basically, when the calendar changed happened, new year was set as 1st January (yawn, stupid time to have new year!) at which point the year count incremented up by one year, and the tax year stayed (and still stays) as April 6th, which was really March 25th but with some days tacked on.
1752 must have been a pretty confusing year.
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#164Feature 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.
It's reasonably easy to get that information from their SEC filings (for public companies), which are all in similar formats, if not exactly the same format. It wouldn't be as hard as you're implying.
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#165I cannot read these fucking comments, they create some kind of anxiety about the fact that I thought to be the only one having to listen to this crap at work and now I see that the world is simply doomed.
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#166Feature 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".
With the company headquarters as a background image, AI generated with more or less inferno/rainbows depending on last quarter's performance.
Yes, please!
Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's reasonably easy to get that information from their SEC filings (for public companies), which are all in similar formats, if not exactly the same format. It wouldn't be as hard as you're implying.
Indeed, they even file with the SEC to say WHEN their system starts/ends every year. Investor relations website probably spells this out quite clearly, too.
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#168Why it’s so ugly? Can you style it a bit? It’s not like 80’s anymore.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Real World aside: The other day I tried to 3D print small text. (Not super small, just the usual 0.4 nozzle size.) Comic Sans worked out best for this due to pretty constant line width.
Fonts with 'routed' in their names are often a good place to look for this - they're named thus because they were designed to be scribed/engraved with a router, so very frequently have a constant width. (and if you're up for a rabbit hole, https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/ )
That was a delightful rabbit hole.
Also, thank you for the "routed" tip. Your rabbit hole also mentions "monoline" and the MIL-SPEC-33558 font too.
I'd upvote you ten times if I could. Made my day.
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#170Ok, I know this is a joke, but... in all seriousness, I recently moved FreeBSD releases to a quarterly calendar. The first month of the quarter, people are encouraged to finish up their works in progress and get them into the tree; the second month, we have BETA/RC builds every week; and in the third month (usually at the start but not always) I do the final RELEASE build. This wasn't for any corporatey reason though…
hey, author here - I want to get on record that I don't think this is silly at all. I think there is something truthful and useful in dividing and conquering time, it's just that generally the bar is so low right now and we should do better!