[lokimedes]

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.

[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.

[bastijn]

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 policy.

If you have any questions or require guidance on approved software tools, please contact IT or Compliance.

[LASR]

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.

[doubled112]

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

[noisy_boy]

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[malfist]

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

[FridgeSeal]

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

[malfist]

Don't worry, your manager will roll up their sleeves and help you code

[noisy_boy]

And if shit hits the fan, he will take full responsibility before making the incredibly hard decision of letting you go after thanking you for all your hard work as part of the close-knit corporate family.

[_carbyau_]

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.

[soneil]

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/ )

[_carbyau_]

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.

[Symbiote]

Comfortaa works well for this:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Comfortaa

[Imustaskforhelp]

I was once given a 3d print of my name by one of my father's friends who had a 3d printer at home.

I think this was what font they used except they had it all connected , that is if I am typing "test" then t is connected to e and then s and then t , in probably the same font as that of Comfortaa.

[Izkata]

I would like to share the existence of Comic Papyrus: https://befonts.com/comic-papyrus-font-finally.html

[Imustaskforhelp]

It actually looks really good , but I don't see a option to try text like in google fonts for example. Let me see if its on google fonts

Edit:nvm the option to write text is below , I didn't see it. Its kinda cool actually.

[xd1936]

Now there's a design that pops!

[loloquwowndueo]

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)

[marcus0x62]

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

[conductr]

It is for year over year comparability for anyone unfamiliar

[smcin]

Well yes for a strictly non-consumer company, since their revenues don't depend on Superbowl, Valentine's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Amazon Prime Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving/Cyber Monday, Christmas. They probably depend more on Fed rate cuts/rises affecting corporate infrastructure budget.

("Honey I got you that Cisco 4500 you always wanted...")

Whereas for anything consumer e-commerce, you'd want a calendar with variable/sliding dates (e.g. SuperBowl) but that at least keeps the above events in the same quarter YoY, consistently.

[saaaaaam]

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.

[steadycourse]

I'll be honest I wasn't expecting just how many people have slightly different start / end dates!

[SAI_Peregrinus]

ISO 8601 allowing week-based year numbering is even more insane. E.g. In 2007-12-31 (in RFC 3339 format) is allowed to be notated as 2008-W01-1 in ISO 8601. RFC 3339 is superior, partly because it prevents this bullshit.

ISO week numbering is actually sort of neat, because instead of leap days it has entire leap weeks since the 400-year Gregorian cycle has a whole number of weeks in it, but for some reason they decided that a week's year is the Gregorian year in which the Thursday of that week occurs.

[siva7]

Reading the comments here gives me PTSD and a wish to go deep down the forest chopping woods

[steine65]

We should table this discussion and circle back EOD. Regards,

[nzealand]

We have a P0 to add calendar 445/ 544/ 454. This critical oversight is causing us to lose sales, as our sales folks never know when those companies fiscal year ends, and end up missing budgetary deadlines.

Also, my legal team says your color choices aren't compliant with Section 508, so regrettably, we do have to take legal action.

Edit: EMEA has questions I couldn't answer about GDPR, PII & data governance. Can you please hope on a quick call to see if they also want to sue you?

[megadata]

> we appreciate if you could sign

No need to appreciate. Signing the retroactive NDA is a non negotiable.

[steadycourse]

this thread both made me laugh and gave me heart palpitations, thanks everyone!

[rpep]

lol, yep, mine is 1st October?!

[_n_b_]

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.

[etothepii]

Though it means that some years have 53 weeks in.

[dragonwriter]

Well, 52 weeks is 364 days, and a calendar year is 365.5±0.5 days, so if you are doing “years” by whole numbers of weeks and don't want to get more than a week out of sync with the regular civil calendar, you are going to need a 53 week year every few years, regardless of your start date.

[deruta]

Don't they any way?