[Elecraft] Start the countdown!

[Fred Jensen]

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
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