Things I learned while developing a billing system

Re:Things I learned while developing a billing system by PeterisP on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:02PM (#26704692)

For additional fun, consider how this would work with the added constraint of needing the date be a business day, so you need to take into account how weekends (which vary across the world, by the way; in a bunch of countries sunday is a business day but friday is off) and banking holidays in every locale in which you do business.

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Re:Things I learned while developing a billing system by notimpotent on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:31PM (#26704966)

First time learning that weekend days vary by country. I looked up [1] some of the more curious ones.

Brunei weekends are Friday and Sunday. Those poor folks work Mon-Thurs, and then go back to work Saturday!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend

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Re:Things I learned while developing a billing system by thaumasiotes on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:39PM (#26705555)

For reference, in China there are a bunch of legally mandated holidays that convert the weekend days around them into normal working days. (The conversion is not legally mandated; think of it as a response to laws that generate many more holidays than the economy supports.)

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