Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
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·February 24, 2025lokimedes
lokimedes
My boss tells me we need it in Comic Sans for the next meeting with our board of directors.
Thank you.
collingreen
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.
schainks
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".
plumbees
This is fun. Seems like you got several comments here trying to "improve" it's "usefulness". I like it as is, a piece of art on how corporate speak is unrealistically obtuse.
jay-barronville
> I like it as is, a piece of art on how corporate speak is unrealistically obtuse.
Definitely obtuse. Why unrealistic though?
icameron
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.
WesSouza
But what about the fiscal year?!
shagie
> ... each quarter is ~13 weeks ...
When I worked at Network Appliance (Q1 earnings call is August 27th), they used a strict 4-4-5 calendar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4–4–5_calendar
This meant that it wasn't "about" 13 weeks for each quarter, the quarter was defined as 13 weeks (91 days).
madcaptenor
They would have had to add a leap week every five or six years to keep that in sync with the normal calendar - did they do that, or did they just let the calendar drift?
shagie
It's been... almost 20 years since I looked at that.
I believe that it had a slightly floating start date.
NetApp fiscal quarters are:
Quarter Three: October 28, 2024 through January 24, 2025
Quarter Four: January 28, 2025 through April 25, 2025
Quarter One: April 28, 2025 through July 25, 2025
Quarter Two: July 27, 2024 through October 23, 2025
Quarter Three: October 29, 2018 through January 27, 2019
Quarter Four: January 28, 2019 through April 26, 2019
Quarter One: April 30, 2018 through July 27, 2018
Quarter Two: July 30, 2018 through October 26, 2018
2019-20: https://web.archive.org/web/20200430103748/http://investors....
2021-22: https://web.archive.org/web/20210802092405/https://investors...
2022-23: https://web.archive.org/web/20221001020458/https://investors...
2023-24: https://web.archive.org/web/20230607023812/https://investors...
It appears that it floats a little bit.
I remember the 4-4-5 from back then (started in '98, was laid off in '09) because we had the old style BIG releases where it was a weekend of things changing (and that was ok). The last weekend of the first month was infrastructure major changes, the last weekend of the second month was software major changes, and the last two weeks of the third month were hard frozen for accounting to not have changes.
mattas
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?
fweimer
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...
thih9
The ui is not lotus notes[1] enough. Still great.
[1]: or jira, sharepoint, salesforce, google docs, etc
claytoncorreia
You could add how many "selling days" are left in the quarter (mon-fri minus holidays).
miki123211
What 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.
airstrike
Why stop at different fiscal years? We need companies with different fiscal calendars entirely.
Lots of great announcements planned for our Q2 FY 44009 earnings call!
saaaaaam
Love this.
It could look more awful-corporate though.
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.