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

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Post by _carbyau_ »

lokimedes wrote: post #36
lokimedes wrote: post #35

Our 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.

My boss tells me we need it in Comic Sans for the next meeting with our board of directors. Thank you.

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.

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

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Post by anitil »

fweimer wrote: post #56
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?

ISO 8601 covers that. Weeks start on Mondays. The first week of the year has January 4th in it, which means that it sometimes starts on a Monday in the previous Gregorian year. This is why strftime has separate format specifiers for ISO year and ISO week year, %Y and %G: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strftime.3.html#NO...

My company (left unnamed to protect the guilty) starts our week on Thursday. Or sometimes Wednesday. But definitely not on Tuesday! Except a couple of places where it's Tuesday.

It's juuuust close enough to ISO8601 where with a bit of forethought everything could have been easy.

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

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Post by conductr »

marcus0x62 wrote: post #80
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Some of them don't even start on a month boundary, or even on the same day every year. Cisco, for instance, has a fiscal year based on a retail calendar[0]; their fiscal year ends on the last full week in July. 0 - https://nrf.com/resources/4-5-4-calendar

It is for year over year comparability for anyone unfamiliar

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

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Post by doubled112 »

LASR wrote: post #82
bastijn wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has come to our attention that an unlicensed tool has been used in the workplace. Please be advised that the use of unlicensed software is strictly prohibited, as it may pose significant legal, security, and compliance risks to the company. Effective immediately, any further use of this tool must cease. Failure to comply may result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination, in accordance with company…

When will this tool have SOC compliance and SSO support? The devs on this must be sleeping. F for not paying attention to your users’ needs.

Please be advised that SSO is on the roadmap and will only be available in the Premium Plus Enterprise for Corporations edition.

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

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Post by etothepii »

_n_b_ wrote: post #76
rpep wrote: post #69

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lol, yep, mine is 1st October?!

Offset financial years mean your finance people aren’t working furiously between Christmas and New Years getting the EoY stuff done. I feel bad for the ones in my company every year.

Though it means that some years have 53 weeks in.

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

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Post by Terretta »

Now add business day (BD #) for financial services… in the visitor's country.

Sounds easy, right? Just something like:

https://aakashkh.github.io/python/2019/05/30/Business-Days-C...

But then a wild Holiday appears:

https://fastercapital.com/content/Business-Day--Business-Day...

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

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Post by malfist »

collingreen wrote: post #42
lokimedes wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My boss tells me we need it in Comic Sans for the next meeting with our board of directors. Thank you.

Hello!? No response yet is this project dead or something it has been 30 minutes since the last question. This is very important to a major customer project of ours please get on this.

Let's get everybody working on the feature into an hour long status meeting to check for blockers.

This is really important so we'll need to do this at least twice a day

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

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Post by FridgeSeal »

malfist wrote: post #98
collingreen wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello!? No response yet is this project dead or something it has been 30 minutes since the last question. This is very important to a major customer project of ours please get on this.

Let's get everybody working on the feature into an hour long status meeting to check for blockers. This is really important so we'll need to do this at least twice a day

No stop it, you’re stressing me out just reading it.
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