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- Y E A R -- F I S C A L C A L E N D A R P R O G R A M
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- PURPOSE:
- The YEAR program's purpose is to output a Fiscal Calendar for the current
- or User-specified Year.
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- SYNTAX:
- YEAR [year]
- where 'year' is any year between 1753 and 3999 inclusive.
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- FILES:
- year.exe - Executable for the Fiscal Calendar Program.
- year.c - C source for year.exe.
- It should compile using any ANSI C compiler.
- year.doc - This Documentation.
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- DISTRIBUTION:
- This program is hereby donated to the Public Domain. If you should share
- the program with others, please provide all three of the above files.
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- NOTES ON FISCAL CALENDARS:
- (1) All Fiscal Weeks begin on Mondays and end on Sundays.
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- (2) There are usually 52 Fiscal Weeks in a Year. The exception to this
- is when January 1st of the FOLLOWING YEAR falls on Friday, in which
- case there are 53 Fiscal Weeks in the Year.
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- (3) Owing to the fact that 7 (the number of days in a week) does NOT
- divide evenly into either 365 or 366, Fiscal Week 1 and Fiscal Week
- 52 (or 53) often contain days from the prior and following years
- respectively. The following table summarizes the Fiscal Week that
- January 1st falls under:
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- Jan 1st Fiscal Week
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- Monday FW 1 current year
- Tuesday FW 1 current year
- Wednesday FW 1 current year
- Thursday FW 1 current year
- Friday FW 53 prior year
- Saturday FW 52 prior year
- Sunday FW 52 prior year
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- (4) The months are made up of a fixed number of Fiscal Weeks:
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- 1ST QUARTER: 3RD QUARTER:
- January - 4 Fiscal Weeks July - 4 Fiscal Weeks
- February - 4 Fiscal Weeks August - 4 Fiscal Weeks
- March - 5 Fiscal Weeks September - 5 Fiscal Weeks
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- 2ND QUARTER: 4TH QUARTER:
- April - 4 Fiscal Weeks October - 4 Fiscal Weeks
- May - 4 Fiscal Weeks November - 4 Fiscal Weeks
- June - 5 Fiscal Weeks December - 5/6 Fiscal Weeks
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- (5) The Fiscal Quarters are comprised of the following Fiscal Weeks:
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- 1st Quarter FW 1 --> FW 13
- 2nd Quarter FW 14 --> FW 26
- 3rd Quarter FW 27 --> FW 39
- 4th Quarter FW 40 --> FW 52 (or FW 53)
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- AUTHOR:
- Jim Rickman
- 41 Lincoln Lane
- Sudbury, MA 01776
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