Re: RFC: Fiscal Dates
No, you aren't blind, the archives at 'http://archive.develooper.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/' appear to be missing a lot of stuff. Does anyone know what is going on? Try using 'http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.datetime' for the moment. The particular thread starts at: http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.datetime/2714 But there is no threading support on that server unless you use the news interface (and the thread goes on for a while). -ben On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 08:30:52AM -0400, Jesse Shy wrote: > I apologize if I am blind, I looked in the archives and did not see the > thread for business calculations. Was this the topic or did it start from > something else. Thanks. > >
Re: RFC: Fiscal Dates
There was a recent disussion about what a business date module should be able to do that might be interesting if you want to make this module do other business calculations... -ben On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 08:00:17AM -0400, Jesse Shy wrote: > > I currently have a subclassed module I created for an application here at > work, called Date::Calc::Fiscal. The interface takes 2 dates, the fiscal > start date and the date your interested in - returning either the day > number or week number of the fiscal year. So if your fiscal start day is > Feb 1, then Feb 1 is day 1 of week 1, or iso I guess is week 0 and Jan 31 > is day 365 or 366 depending. We use this in a web app to show individual > customers their invoicing by periods that match their internal accounting > practices. > > After some thought, I realized that this was simply the application and > that the function is realy a numerical day adjustment to either the > gregorian or pataphysical calendars, depending on whether you have 12 or > 13 periods in calender ( fiscal instrument ). > > So first I am wondering about namespace. I can not think of another place > where this is needed other than finacial apps, so I was thinking > DateTime::Fiscal, but as I said earlier, that is really the application > not the function however, if this is the only application than this name > fits. > > Currently I only have 2 methods, day_of_fiscal_year and > week_of_fiscal_year. I would eventually like to use DateTime::Set, ::Span > ::SetSpan along with calendaring to create fiscal calendars showing end of > period dates, etc... > > I would love some feedback on these thoughts or anything related to this > that I may not have thought of. Thanks.
RFC: Fiscal Dates
I currently have a subclassed module I created for an application here at work, called Date::Calc::Fiscal. The interface takes 2 dates, the fiscal start date and the date your interested in - returning either the day number or week number of the fiscal year. So if your fiscal start day is Feb 1, then Feb 1 is day 1 of week 1, or iso I guess is week 0 and Jan 31 is day 365 or 366 depending. We use this in a web app to show individual customers their invoicing by periods that match their internal accounting practices. After some thought, I realized that this was simply the application and that the function is realy a numerical day adjustment to either the gregorian or pataphysical calendars, depending on whether you have 12 or 13 periods in calender ( fiscal instrument ). So first I am wondering about namespace. I can not think of another place where this is needed other than finacial apps, so I was thinking DateTime::Fiscal, but as I said earlier, that is really the application not the function however, if this is the only application than this name fits. Currently I only have 2 methods, day_of_fiscal_year and week_of_fiscal_year. I would eventually like to use DateTime::Set, ::Span ::SetSpan along with calendaring to create fiscal calendars showing end of period dates, etc... I would love some feedback on these thoughts or anything related to this that I may not have thought of. Thanks.
