Search Again: Re: February 29th expiration From: George A. Ruzzier Jr. Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2000 Time: 8:46:44 pm On 3/1/2000, Shawn Hogan sent the following: >Agreed. *Luckly* there are a few laws that define it. If you sell >something on a monthly billing cycle, and they pay for a month starting >on January 31st, you have to give them the month + the difference in >days. So for example in 2000 (because of leap year) they would be >renewed on the 2nd of March. Of course, this could only happen once per >customer, since there is always a 1-28th day in each month. > >Now you can of course twist it around to get around it, (by selling >service on a daily basis instead. Or you can sell service from the 31st >of December to the 31st of March as a quarterly service, only because >March also has 31 days, etc. > >(Don't ask me who comes up with this stuff). > > - Shawn From Dictionary.com: month (mnth) n. Abbr. m., mo. 1. A unit of time corresponding approximately to one cycle of the moon's phases, or about 30 days or 4 weeks. 2. One of the 12 divisions of a year as determined by a calendar, especially the Gregorian calendar. Also called calendar month. 3. A period extending from a date in one calendar month to the corresponding date in the following month. 4. A sidereal month. 5. A lunar month. 6. A solar month. So it sounds like the OG law is using the #3 definition. Or is it? I guess my problem with this is that for 3 years we have been billing on logical, calendar month buckets. A quarter starts on the 1st day of the 1st month, and ends on the last day of the 3rd month. Computers are smart enough to know that if an expiration date is Jan. 31 and the customer has 3 months of service, that the new expiration date should be June 30. Or at least I thought they were ;-) The moral of the story is that one size doesn't fit all. -- Regards, George ---------------------------------------------------------- George A. Ruzzier Jr. - President Innovative Technologies Group, Inc. Internet Presence Specialists - Orange County, CA Phone: 949.770-9404, Ext 115 * FAX: 949.770-9406 Visit: http://www.inno-tech.com Sales: mailto:sales@inno-tech.com Support: mailto:support@inno-tech.com ---------------------------------------------------------- * Web Design * Hosting * Server Co-Location * * Database Integration & Hosting Services * ------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe and list archive please visit http://www.optigold.com/lists -------------------------------------------

Messages In This Thread: February 29th expiration by Chiara Cubero on Mar 1, 2000 at 1:51:53 pm Re: February 29th expiration by Shawn Hogan on Mar 1, 2000 at 2:02:41 pm Re: February 29th expiration by George A. Ruzzier Jr. on Mar 1, 2000 at 3:37:24 pm Re: February 29th expiration by Shawn Hogan on Mar 1, 2000 at 3:43:49 pm Re: February 29th expiration by George A. Ruzzier Jr. on Mar 1, 2000 at 5:32:56 pm Re: February 29th expiration by Shawn Hogan on Mar 1, 2000 at 5:46:48 pm Re: February 29th expiration by William Sommers on Mar 1, 2000 at 5:52:19 pm Re: February 29th expiration by Shawn Hogan on Mar 1, 2000 at 6:09:09 pm Re: February 29th expiration by Michael Oas on Mar 1, 2000 at 6:09:21 pm Re: February 29th expiration by George A. Ruzzier Jr. on Mar 1, 2000 at 8:46:44 pm Re: February 29th expiration by Shawn Hogan on Mar 1, 2000 at 8:56:49 pm