Craig Rairdin wrote:
You apparently don't work for a software company. :-) At a previous company
we had two products that we promised to ship by end of December 1995. When
we didn't ship the first until the third of January, I issued calendars to
the group labelled "Decemberary 1995++". Our product shipped on Decemberary
34, 1995++, which I thought was close enough. The other product shipped on
the 62nd so we counted that one as having met its goals, too.
Having been employed by a DoD contractor for many years, I am quite
familiar with your calendaring methodology. The Feds FY officially ends
at 2359 wherever you are on 30 Sep. At that moment, all project monies
that have not been obligated by contract revert to the Treasury, and any
new contract obligations have to come from the new FY budget, which may
or may not have your project listed in it. It thus turns out that for
the Feds, September sometimes hath more than 30 days ... enough "days"
to get everything on contract before 1 Oct rolled around.
I may go to digest mode [if I can figure out how] since I expect the
reflector traffic to reach astronomical proportions as the magic date,
whatever it turns out to be, arrives.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2007 CQP Oct 6-7
- www.cqp.org
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