At the end of month, accountants and operations managers starts panicking as they approach the close-the-books deadline. Business doesn’t necessarily follow calendar. Holidays and weekends … Read More

If you have an event that recurs every month (“Monthly Team Sync”) then your calendar probably has a big ol’ gray box in there and … Read More

Take your monthly team meeting on the 30th, for instance. Everything makes sense until one day, February comes around with just 28 days. Now what? … Read More

When estimating how long it’ll take, factor in slow traffic and red lights. A lot of people just divides miles by mph. That doesn’t account … Read More

When you look at it, it probably seems like gibberish. A long string of numbers representing, what? But its not gibberish at all; it’s a … Read More

Your log file reports that a user logged in at 1700000000. To your eyes, it’s just a bunch of random numbers, yet it’s obviously some … Read More

There is confusion about Julian dates because in each field the term refer to something different. To a warehouse, it’s a serial number used to … Read More

We are taught that leap years is simply mechanical: Add four to the year. And there you have it! Four every four years, February 29th … Read More

Years aren’t cubed blocks of time; they’re not even all equal. Leap days mean we rely on leap years to keep seasonal and solar years … Read More

To determine if a year are a leap year, you don’t simply divide by four. Not quite: all of the century years gets skipped (e.g., … Read More