Fiscal quarter vs calendar quarter

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Published on 2014-06-09T10:29:10Z Indexed on 2014/06/09 15:41 UTC
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I'm building a Date/Time class with a "configurable quarter" system as follows.

User specifies which month the quarter starts at (config)
Set of functions to deal with quarters (next quarter, prev quarter, etc)
All quarter functions respect the config

Now this class is primarily to be used for fiscal quarter calculations. So assuming I have this class with a configurable "quarter" system, would I need another parallel set of functions for calendar quarters too? What are the applications for calendar quarters anyways?

By calendar quarters I mean where Q1 is Jan-Mar, and Q4 is Oct-Dec.

By fiscal quarters I mean whatever standard your Country uses (in India Q1 starts in April)

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