Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
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Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
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Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
#2Are you aware that not all corporations follow the calendar year?
Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
#3Are you aware that not all corporations follow the calendar year?
Of course - no doubt there are many schemes! I have found this to be by far the most common
Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
#4neat!
Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
#5Are you aware that not all corporations follow the calendar year?
I've always been curious about folks who use this phrasing and tone.
"Are you aware" always seems condescending to me. It's a weird assumption to make that because someone made a choice, that they weren't aware that there were other choices.
It's like walking up to someone who drives a Honda and saying "are you aware you could have bought a Ford?"
Please help me, us there another interpretation of this kind of phrasing?
Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
#6Could be useful to have the number of working days left in the quarter (even an approximation of 5/7 would do).
Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
#7Are you aware that not all corporations follow the calendar year?
Of course - no doubt there are many schemes! I have found this to be by far the most common
A quick Google shows 65% of public companies use calendar year as their FY.
At our startup, it's even more complicated :) we use calendar year for official financial / business metrics, while our planning quarter is offset by 1 month (Q1 = Feb/Mar/Apr).
Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
#8Are you aware that not all corporations follow the calendar year?
Of course - no doubt there are many schemes! I have found this to be by far the most common
I can't remember the last time I worked at a corporation that used the actual Gregorian calendar.
Most of the times it's some shadow-Greg calendar that's slightly out of phase. E.g., I think my 2025Q1 starts on 1 Mar? I've never been entirely sure.
Intel used some "work week" concept that I never figured out the rules for, in the entire time I worked there, beyond that it wasn't ISO weeks.
The spirit of the idea is neat, though, and I should build something like this internally but using whatever esocalendar we're using… then I'd be able to remember whether we're +1 mo, +2 mo, 1Y-1mo … or whatever … out of phase with normal people.
Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
#9What I would add to this (perhaps below the fold):
1. The current time in a few major cities around the world (NYC, SFO, London, CET, Mumbai and Beijing come to mind), with an indication of where it's working day (which is not 9 to 5 everywhere). Particular emphasis should be put on timezones that just started and ended daylight saving (EU and US aren't synchronized on this).
2. Upcoming holidays in major world countries.
3. Info about which fiscal year it is and when that's going to change.
You could probably get Claude to build you an artifact for this in 5 minutes though.
Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
#10Are you aware that not all corporations follow the calendar year?
I've always been curious about folks who use this phrasing and tone. "Are you aware" always seems condescending to me. It's a weird assumption to make that because someone made a choice, that they weren't aware that there were other choices. It's like walking up to someone who drives a Honda and saying "are you aware you could have bought a Ford?" Please help me, us there another interpretation of this kind of phrasi…
You could take it at face value. I have no idea if this was a 15 minute off-the-cuff effort, or a larger researched project. Rather than assume they either did or did not know, I asked. If they knew, they can explain their choice more. If they did not, they have something new to look into.
If you are taking it as condescending, that is on you. It was simply a question.